What: old NCR53C9x driver
When: October 2007
Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
- driver can ported over almost trivially.
+ driver can be ported over almost trivially.
Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006
+Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h
Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006
Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
+Funcs: kernel_thread
Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should
use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
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-What: i8xx_tco watchdog driver
-When: in 2.6.22
-Why: the i8xx_tco watchdog driver has been replaced by the iTCO_wdt
- watchdog driver.
-Who: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
-
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-
What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4
When: in 2.6.23
Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving
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+What: libata spindown skipping and warning
+When: Dec 2008
+Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
+ down libata disks because libata didn't use to spin down disk on
+ system halt (only synchronized caches).
+ Spin down on system halt is now implemented. sysfs node
+ /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop is present if
+ spin down support is available.
+ Because issuing spin down command to an already spun down disk
+ makes some disks spin up just to spin down again, libata tracks
+ device spindown status to skip the extra spindown command and
+ warn about it.
+ This is to give userspace tools the time to get updated and will
+ be removed after userspace is reasonably updated.
+Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
+
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+