---------------------------
-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: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007
Why: replaced by the e100 driver
---------------------------
+What: ide-tape driver
+When: July 2008
+Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
+ reason is an effort no one wants to make.
+Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
+ <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: libata spindown skipping and warning
When: Dec 2008
Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
---------------------------
-What: sk98lin network driver
-When: Feburary 2008
-Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
- replaced by the skge driver.
-Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks
When: April 2008
---------------------------
----------------------------
-
What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4
When: May 2008
Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
---------------------------
-What: bcm43xx wireless network driver
-When: 2.6.26
-Files: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx
-Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the
- mac80211-based b43 and b43legacy drivers.
-Who: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: ieee80211 softmac wireless networking component
-When: 2.6.26 (or after removal of bcm43xx and port of zd1211rw to mac80211)
-Files: net/ieee80211/softmac
-Why: No in-kernel drivers will depend on it any longer.
-Who: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: rc80211-simple rate control algorithm for mac80211
-When: 2.6.26
-Files: net/mac80211/rc80211-simple.c
-Why: This algorithm was provided for reference but always exhibited bad
- responsiveness and performance and has some serious flaws. It has been
- replaced by rc80211-pid.
-Who: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
-
----------------------------
-
What (Why):
- include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files
(superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match)
and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
are not provided by Broadcom anymore.
Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
+ layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
+ /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work
+ is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
+ trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
+Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: init_mm export
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
+ work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved
+ by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code
+ of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such
+ code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
+ out-of-tree driver.
+Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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