X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=95e744353120941dcf5d387bdc62e179b26503ce;hb=378bac820be6a0ec95df8151524de73ad2b2d2ac;hp=1d227ee3792a1f704c7b505486e50985cf7fd8b5;hpb=3e0777b8fa96f7073ed5d13d3bc1d573b766bef9;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1d227ee379..95e7443531 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -51,14 +51,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() -When: April 2005 -Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method - vecors. -Who: Andi Kleen , Christoph Hellwig - ---------------------------- - What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: April 2006 Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -102,16 +94,6 @@ Who: Jody McIntyre --------------------------- -What: register_serial/unregister_serial -When: December 2005 -Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against - a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management - of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port - and serial8250_unregister_port instead. -Who: Russell King - ---------------------------- - What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid When: November 2005 Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c @@ -119,3 +101,31 @@ Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names will be available until removal of old names. Who: Grant Coady +--------------------------- + +What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) +When: November 2005 +Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c +Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a + normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel + infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA + control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is + unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the + PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more + difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either + handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new + pcmciautils package available at + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ +Who: Dominik Brodowski + +--------------------------- + +What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) +When: December 2005 +Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent + "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old + ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle + all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have + to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue + instead of the current 'libipq'. +Who: Harald Welte