X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=5b3f31faed56872b84fbd293494613f6d627a987;hb=30e0e178193d4221abc9926b07a4c7661c7cc4a9;hp=af0e9393bf684d62c70afcaa1c620709fceebb86;hpb=e1c25dc638db01600069b3f9167d1b35f8d574b5;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index af0e9393bf..5b3f31faed 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 @@ -147,6 +138,24 @@ Who: Kay Sievers --------------------------- +What: find_task_by_pid +When: 2.6.26 +Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the + wrong task when called from inside a namespace. + + The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this + pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get + it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later. + + If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then + he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the + task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but + this may be not so in general. + +Who: Pavel Emelyanov + +--------------------------- + What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. @@ -261,17 +270,6 @@ 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 @@ -282,6 +280,21 @@ Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to 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: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. +Who: Sebastian Siewior + --------------------------- What: /sys/o2cb symlink @@ -291,3 +304,11 @@ Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb 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