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-What (Why):
- - xt_recent: the old ipt_recent proc dir
- (superseded by /proc/net/xt_recent)
-
-When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, whichever comes first
-Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules
-Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
-
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-
What: GPIO autorequest on gpio_direction_{input,output}() in gpiolib
When: February 2010
Why: All callers should use explicit gpio_request()/gpio_free().
with no impact.
Who: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: xt_NOTRACK
+Files: net/netfilter/xt_NOTRACK.c
+When: April 2011
+Why: Superseded by xt_CT
+Who: Netfilter developer team <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support
+When: 2.6.35
+Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
+ include/linux/videotext.h
+Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
+ for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
+ Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
+ has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
+ that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
+ supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
+
+ In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
+ are no applications actually implementing this API.
+
+ The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
+ like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
+ event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
+ provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
+ around the sliced VBI API instead.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>