X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pandora-kernel.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=e833c8c81e691797fd44311c5463714ca1535a94;hp=842aa9de84a603298f74f9f4b8c036e0104001cf;hb=b7d41a9fbb364c67d91c3588e117eba547e2d4bf;hpb=1f0ce990f0fc1bb92c28ef3f54b55cdf9a17b3a8 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 842aa9de84a6..e833c8c81e69 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -386,34 +386,6 @@ Who: Tejun Heo ---------------------------- -What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be - dropped. -When: 2.6.37 or earlier. -Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies - from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these - techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. - These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the - performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware - expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of - years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this - feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the - Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if - technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) - arise. - - Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels - still work fine on VMware's platform. - Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, - Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence - releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. - - For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, - http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html - -Who: Alok N Kataria - ----------------------------- - What: Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver When: March 2010 Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the @@ -530,16 +502,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner ---------------------------- -What: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394) -When: 2.6.37 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c -Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more - features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller - and more modern code base -Who: Stefan Richter - ----------------------------- - What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option When: 2.6.37 Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c @@ -564,3 +526,12 @@ Who: FUJITA Tomonori ---------------------------- +What: iwlwifi disable_hw_scan module parameters +When: 2.6.40 +Why: Hareware scan is the prefer method for iwlwifi devices for + scanning operation. Remove software scan support for all the + iwlwifi devices. + +Who: Wey-Yi Guy + +----------------------------