X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=484250dcdbe08b330a9a27e5d78226bfabb3c6df;hb=e06e7c615877026544ad7f8b309d1a3706410383;hp=7d3f205b0ba50fddc8da631ba9fad29063239256;hpb=3334500b460a5eede2e3466ca97a90fe3b91ceb5;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7d3f205b0b..484250dcdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN -When: June 2007 -Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface. - Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394 - (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv, - raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394. -Who: Dan Dennedy , Stefan Richter - ---------------------------- - What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level @@ -258,14 +248,6 @@ Who: Len Brown --------------------------- -What: sk98lin network driver -When: July 2007 -Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver - replaced by the skge driver. -Who: Stephen Hemminger - ---------------------------- - What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation When: Oct 2007 Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c @@ -280,25 +262,6 @@ Who: Richard Purdie --------------------------- -What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4 -When: in 2.6.23 -Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving - us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have - been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's - implementation are blocking more critical core networking - development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution - enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs - (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be - handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling - errors impossible too because they get called after we've - totally commited to creating a route object, for example). - This problem has existed for years and no forward progress - has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage - this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it. -Who: David S. Miller - ---------------------------- - What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) When: December 2007 Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several