X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=599fe55bf2970bb56b512f77d8ce5170d1e0199d;hb=e9f20d6f03e8df393b001dab6dc5226c2a5daf57;hp=164c89394cff14bd378236420e31a95651aed4c9;hpb=19b4e7f4e9b1c88459cf2c9b9ccaa09cb8bf854d;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 164c89394c..599fe55bf2 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -128,15 +128,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven --------------------------- -What: vm_ops.nopage -When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted -Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around - forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to - maintain. -Who: Nick Piggin - ---------------------------- - What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and @@ -203,14 +194,6 @@ Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks When: April 2010 @@ -221,8 +204,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner --------------------------- ---------------------------- - What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4 When: May 2008 Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb. @@ -230,33 +211,6 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- -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wireless network driver -When: 2.6.26 -Files: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx -Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the - mac80211-based b43 and b43legacy drivers.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 - ---------------------------- - -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 - ---------------------------- - -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 - ---------------------------- - What (Why): - include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files (superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match) @@ -298,17 +252,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: init_mm export When: 2.6.26 Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to @@ -318,3 +261,28 @@ Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some out-of-tree driver. Who: Thomas Gleixner + +---------------------------- + +What: usedac i386 kernel parameter +When: 2.6.27 +Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination +Who: Glauber Costa + +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/o2cb symlink +When: January 2010 +Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb + exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of + ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions + which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. +Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com + +--------------------------- + +What: asm/semaphore.h +When: 2.6.26 +Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include + linux/semaphore.h instead. +Who: Matthew Wilcox