X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=47c4ec2fc674a6eaf3ec2f065a73025c5acca168;hb=d670ed5e12954d8fd2b9de49222b1dc5d1723340;hp=4dc4654776657b68f35161ac642e9caa187d15e4;hpb=a59024f1ecb52972b9be5ee91b5ef38a6b263d1b;p=pandora-kernel.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 4dc465477665..47c4ec2fc674 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- -What: x86 floppy disable_hlt -When: 2012 -Why: ancient workaround of dubious utility clutters the - code used by everybody else. -Who: Len Brown - ---------------------------- - What: CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE, and its ability to call APM BIOS in idle When: 2012 Why: This optional sub-feature of APM is of dubious reliability, @@ -133,41 +125,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: /proc//oom_adj When: August 2012 Why: /proc//oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's @@ -495,29 +452,6 @@ Who: Jean Delvare ---------------------------- -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_ADD in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: The information passed to the driver by this ioctl is now queried - dynamically from the device. -Who: Laurent Pinchart - ----------------------------- - -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP_OLD in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: Used only by applications compiled against older driver versions. - Superseded by UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP which supports V4L2 menu controls. -Who: Laurent Pinchart - ----------------------------- - -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_GET and UVCIOC_CTRL_SET in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl. -Who: Laurent Pinchart - ----------------------------- - What: Support for driver specific ioctls in the pwc driver (everything defined in media/pwc-ioctl.h) When: 3.3 @@ -594,9 +528,18 @@ Why: In 3.0, we can now autodetect internal 3G device and already have Who: Lee, Chun-Yi ---------------------------- + What: The XFS nodelaylog mount option When: 3.3 Why: The delaylog mode that has been the default since 2.6.39 has proven stable, and the old code is in the way of additional improvements in the log code. Who: Christoph Hellwig + +---------------------------- + +What: iwlagn alias support +When: 3.5 +Why: The iwlagn module has been renamed iwlwifi. The alias will be around + for backward compatibility for several cycles and then dropped. +Who: Don Fry