Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SG sg validation

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -82,6 +82,52 @@ Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
 
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+What:  sys_sysctl
+When:  September 2010
+Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
+Why:   The same information is available in a more convenient from
+       /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
+       important performance wise.
+
+       Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
+       bugs and security issues.
+
+       When I looked several months ago all I could find after
+       searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
+       glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
+
+       The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
+       space programs.
+
+       sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
+       space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
+
+       For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
+       sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
+
+       Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
+       properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
+       2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
+       them and end the pain.
+
+       In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
+       in a piecewise fashion.
+
+Who:   Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:  a.out interpreter support for ELF executables
+When:  2.6.25
+Files: fs/binfmt_elf.c
+Why:   Using a.out interpreters for ELF executables was a feature for
+       transition from a.out to ELF. But now it is unlikely to be still
+       needed anymore and removing it would simplify the hairy ELF
+       loader code.
+Who:   Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What:  remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
 When:  August 2006
 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
@@ -173,13 +219,6 @@ Who:       Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
 
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-What:  drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS
-When:  options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24
-Why:   OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
-Who:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:  ACPI procfs interface
 When:  July 2008
 Why:   ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
@@ -205,20 +244,6 @@ Who:       Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
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-What:  Compaq touchscreen device emulation
-When:  Oct 2007
-Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c
-Why:   The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
-       tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and
-       much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no
-       longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to
-       use tslib by now.
-       The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have
-       it loaded when they don't need/use it.
-Who:   Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:  i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers
 When:  September 2007
 Why:   Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific