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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9b743198f77a..81bc51369f59 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -47,17 +47,6 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> --------------------------- -What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, - Connection Management Procedures driver -When: November 2005 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}* -Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented - in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for - example.) -Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> - ---------------------------- - What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN When: November 2005 Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is @@ -82,15 +71,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> --------------------------- -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 -Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names - will be available until removal of old names. -Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> - ---------------------------- - What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout) When: April 2006 Files: kernel/panic.c @@ -143,6 +123,15 @@ Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --------------------------- +What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING +When: June 2006 +Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january + 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not, + the option should just go away entirely. +Who: Arjan van de Ven + +--------------------------- + What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md When: July 2006 Files: drivers/md/md.c @@ -159,3 +148,44 @@ Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an issue. Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC) +When: March 2006 +Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8) +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: pci_module_init(driver) +When: January 2007 +Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver). +Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: I2C interface of the it87 driver +When: January 2007 +Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C + probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see + bug #5889.) +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: mount/umount uevents +When: February 2007 +Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know + when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should + poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. +When: June 2006 +Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no + users have complained indicating there is no more need for these + boards. This should really be considered a last call. +Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |