X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=c585aa8d62b430fc4c052253f8db7fd38bd0e2cc;hb=58a3bb59973e33a428d72fa530a3d1d81feb0e8f;hp=040f437c421bc1bb410ce2253369fa5e1cd33e64;hpb=8eefb2b7ad6195f4324629f35be0b9443cd8ee96;p=pandora-kernel.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 040f437c421b..c585aa8d62b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -50,22 +50,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy , Stefan Richter --------------------------- -What: ieee1394 core's unused exports (CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API) -When: January 2007 -Why: There are no projects known to use these exported symbols, except - dfg1394 (uses one symbol whose functionality is core-internal now). -Who: Stefan Richter - ---------------------------- - -What: ieee1394's *_oui sysfs attributes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB) -When: January 2007 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh -Why: big size, little value -Who: Stefan Richter - ---------------------------- - What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2006 Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 @@ -186,18 +170,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman --------------------------- -What: find_trylock_page -When: January 2007 -Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It - is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in - that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock. - It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible. - This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface - cannot cleanly use something else. -Who: Nick Piggin - ---------------------------- - What: Interrupt only SA_* flags When: Januar 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them @@ -207,22 +179,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner --------------------------- -What: Bridge netfilter deferred IPv4/IPv6 output hook calling -When: January 2007 -Why: The deferred output hooks are a layering violation causing unusual - and broken behaviour on bridge devices. Examples of things they - break include QoS classifation using the MARK or CLASSIFY targets, - the IPsec policy match and connection tracking with VLANs on a - bridge. Their only use is to enable bridge output port filtering - within iptables with the physdev match, which can also be done by - combining iptables and ebtables using netfilter marks. Until it - will get removed the hook deferral is disabled by default and is - only enabled when needed. - -Who: Patrick McHardy - ---------------------------- - What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and @@ -242,6 +198,30 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- +What: i2c_adapter.dev + i2c_adapter.list +When: July 2007 +Why: Superfluous, given i2c_adapter.class_dev: + * The "dev" was a stand-in for the physical device node that legacy + drivers would not have; but now it's almost always present. Any + remaining legacy drivers must upgrade (they now trigger warnings). + * The "list" duplicates class device children. + The delay in removing this is so upgraded lm_sensors and libsensors + can get deployed. (Removal causes minor changes in the sysfs layout, + notably the location of the adapter type name and parenting the i2c + client hardware directly from their controller.) +Who: Jean Delvare , + David Brownell + +--------------------------- + +What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS +When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24 +Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements +Who: Adrian Bunk + +--------------------------- + What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers When: 2.6.22 Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old @@ -272,3 +252,85 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- + +<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use + ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented + in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented + vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than + the same. + + Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform + are different, so there will always be a need for + platform-specific drivers. + + So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the + platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same + to the user when they supply the same features. + + hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL + +Who: Len Brown + +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace +When: 2.6.21 +Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for + the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary + and have no place being exposed to user-space. + + For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, + the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump + and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: + http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils +Who: Len Brown + +--------------------------- + +What: ACPI procfs interface +When: July 2007 +Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated + in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. +Who: Zhang Rui + +--------------------------- + +What: /proc/acpi/button +When: August 2007 +Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer + since 2.6.20. +Who: Len Brown + +--------------------------- + +What: JFFS (version 1) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. +Who: Jeff Garzik + +--------------------------- + +What: sk98lin network driver +When: July 2007 +Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver + replaced by the skge driver. +Who: Stephen Hemminger + +--------------------------- + +What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation +When: Oct 2007 +Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c +Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. + tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and + much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no + longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to + use tslib by now. + The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have + it loaded when they don't need/use it. +Who: Richard Purdie + +---------------------------