---------------------------
-What: devfs
-When: July 2005
-Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
- function calls throughout the kernel tree
-Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
- races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
- against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
-Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
When: December 2005
Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
---------------------------
-What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: April 2006
-Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
-Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
- vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
- VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
- drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
- are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
- So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
- people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
- of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
-Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When: November 2005
+When: November 2006
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394
access anyway.
-Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
+Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-What: au1x00_uart driver
-When: January 2006
-Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
- between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
- brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
- issue.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007
Why: replaced by the e100 driver
---------------------------
-What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock)
-When: August 2006
-Files: kernel/fork.c
-Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have
- no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due
- to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents
- moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list.
-Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
+ (temporary transition config option provided until then)
+ The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
+When: before 2.6.19
+Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary
+ and are often a sign of "wrong API"
+Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---------------------------
Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---------------------------
+
+What: Support for the MIPS EV96100 evaluation board
+When: September 2006
+Why: Does no longer build since at least November 15, 2003, apparently
+ no userbase left.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Support for the Momentum / PMC-Sierra Jaguar ATX evaluation board
+When: September 2006
+Why: Does no longer build since quite some time, and was never popular,
+ due to the platform being replaced by successor models. Apparently
+ no user base left. It also is one of the last users of
+ WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Support for the Momentum Ocelot, Ocelot 3, Ocelot C and Ocelot G
+When: September 2006
+Why: Some do no longer build and apparently there is no user base left
+ for these platforms.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Support for MIPS Technologies' Altas and SEAD evaluation board
+When: September 2006
+Why: Some do no longer build and apparently there is no user base left
+ for these platforms. Hardware out of production since several years.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Support for the IT8172-based platforms, ITE 8172G and Globespan IVR
+When: September 2006
+Why: Code does no longer build since at least 2.6.0, apparently there is
+ no user base left for these platforms. Hardware out of production
+ since several years and hardly a trace of the manufacturer left on
+ the net.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
+When: Januar 2007
+Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
+ out of the signal namespace.
+
+Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+
+---------------------------
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