---------------------------
-What: vm_ops.nopage
-When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
-Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
- forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
- maintain.
-Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment
When: October 2008
Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
---------------------------
+What: find_task_by_pid
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the
+ wrong task when called from inside a namespace.
+
+ The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this
+ pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get
+ it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later.
+
+ If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then
+ he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the
+ task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but
+ this may be not so in general.
+
+Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
---------------------------
-What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4
-When: May 2008
-Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What (Why):
- include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files
(superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match)
---------------------------
-What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
- layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
- /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work
- is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
- trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
-Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
----------------------------
-
What: init_mm export
When: 2.6.26
Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
out-of-tree driver.
Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+----------------------------
+
+What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
+When: 2.6.27
+Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
+Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE)
+When: 2.6.28
+Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced
+ by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF.
+Who: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
+
---------------------------
What: /sys/o2cb symlink
ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: asm/semaphore.h
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
+ linux/semaphore.h instead.
+Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD,
+ SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD
+When: June 2009
+Why: A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that
+ removes the limitions of the old API. The sctp library has been
+ converted to use these new options at the same time. Any user
+ space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using
+ the new options.
+Who: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
+When: January 2009
+Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
+ to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
+ removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
+Who: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
+ (in net/core/net-sysfs.c)
+When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches
+ for enough time, probably some time in 2010.
+Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
+ ways (ioctls)
+Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
+When: 2.6.29
+Why: Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation.
+ Currently used only to set a default value for a feature that is also
+ controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter.
+Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
+
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