---------------------------
+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
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>