---------------------------
+What: old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+When: 2.6.29
+Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
+ which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
+ not want to keep static regulatory domains in the kernel due to the
+ the dynamic nature of regulatory law and localization. We kept around
+ the old static definitions for the regulatory domains of:
+ * US
+ * JP
+ * EU
+ and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
+ set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
+ some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
+ can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
+Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: dev->power.power_state
When: July 2007
Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing
---------------------------
-What: old NCR53C9x driver
-When: October 2007
-Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
- driver can be ported over almost trivially.
-Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2008
Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h
---------------------------
+What: old tuner-3036 i2c driver
+When: 2.6.28
+Why: This driver is for VERY old i2c-over-parallel port teletext receiver
+ boxes. Rather then spending effort on converting this driver to V4L2,
+ and since it is extremely unlikely that anyone still uses one of these
+ devices, it was decided to drop it.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+ ---------------------------
+
+What: V4L2 dpc7146 driver
+When: 2.6.28
+Why: Old driver for the dpc7146 demonstration board that is no longer
+ relevant. The last time this was tested on actual hardware was
+ probably around 2002. Since this is a driver for a demonstration
+ board the decision was made to remove it rather than spending a
+ lot of effort continually updating this driver to stay in sync
+ with the latest internal V4L2 or I2C API.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
---------------------------
-What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories
-When: Jun 2008
-Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64
- platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining
- arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc
- tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will
- remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms
- that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an
- interested maintainer.
-Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
-
----------------------------
-
What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks
When: April 2010