X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=c1d1fd0c299b9c1b175532c494e3aefb15dbe60c;hb=02cf01aea5af7a4d1a38045712fe11bffcc206b0;hp=181bff00516784e3b4bc0c8a7f2b94ed47b76e70;hpb=eb189d8bc9824bcb2187ffdab27d77ab469264c3;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 181bff00516..c1d1fd0c299 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- -What: MXSER -When: December 2007 -Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet - and remove it. -Who: Jiri Slaby - ---------------------------- - What: dev->power.power_state When: July 2007 Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing @@ -107,17 +99,6 @@ Who: Eric Biederman --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c @@ -130,15 +111,6 @@ Who: Christoph Hellwig --------------------------- -What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING -When: June 2006 -Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january - 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not, - the option should just go away entirely. -Who: Arjan van de Ven - ---------------------------- - What: eepro100 network driver When: January 2007 Why: replaced by the e100 driver @@ -156,22 +128,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven --------------------------- -What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL -When: February 2008 -Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c -Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been - possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs - that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB - subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to - register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs - any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the - userspace filesystems, please contact the - linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers - there will be glad to help you out. -Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman - ---------------------------- - 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 @@ -216,18 +172,13 @@ Who: Len Brown --------------------------- -What: 'time' kernel boot parameter -When: January 2008 -Why: replaced by 'printk.time=' so that printk timestamps can be - enabled or disabled as needed -Who: Randy Dunlap - ---------------------------- - -What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE -When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 -Why: obsolete OSS drivers -Who: Adrian Bunk +What: ide-tape driver +When: July 2008 +Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c +Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no + reason is an effort no one wants to make. +Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Borislav Petkov + --------------------------- @@ -354,3 +305,26 @@ Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainabilit and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware are not provided by Broadcom anymore. Who: Michael Buesch + +--------------------------- + +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 + +--------------------------- + +What: init_mm export +When: 2.6.26 +Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to + work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved + by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code + of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such + code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some + out-of-tree driver. +Who: Thomas Gleixner