X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=5f95d4b3cab1a4f6625f65431a720703e1ce2a05;hb=c0dfb2905126e9e94edebbce8d3e05001301f52d;hp=8b1430b4665571d613dd1f85c6a4e4e22d387755;hpb=62778ba1aa2589dc78c36a32edc6f5a6ccaf50c6;p=pandora-kernel.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 8b1430b46655..5f95d4b3cab1 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -25,15 +25,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- -What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) -When: July 2005 -Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better - (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the - pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. -Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman - ---------------------------- - What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) When: September 2005 Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space @@ -51,14 +42,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() -When: April 2005 -Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method - vecors. -Who: Andi Kleen , Christoph Hellwig - ---------------------------- - What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: April 2006 Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -74,14 +57,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney --------------------------- -What: remove verify_area() -When: July 2006 -Files: Various uaccess.h headers. -Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. -Who: Jesper Juhl - ---------------------------- - What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 @@ -102,16 +77,6 @@ Who: Jody McIntyre --------------------------- -What: register_serial/unregister_serial -When: September 2005 -Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against - a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management - of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port - and serial8250_unregister_port, or platform devices instead. -Who: Russell King - ---------------------------- - What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid When: November 2005 Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c @@ -135,3 +100,15 @@ Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a pcmciautils package available at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ Who: Dominik Brodowski + +--------------------------- + +What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) +When: December 2005 +Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent + "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old + ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle + all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have + to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue + instead of the current 'libipq'. +Who: Harald Welte