X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=95e744353120941dcf5d387bdc62e179b26503ce;hb=5e5d7a22292613e55da8e91d75bcc062fd861f41;hp=b9eb209318ab7d737ba7e6be2a0587ce9e8a9d25;hpb=ae20ea8525a80a863f70d332cf47b71bd9f54c1f;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b9eb209318..95e7443531 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ Who: Randy Dunlap --------------------------- -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: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) +When: December 2005 +Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 + O_DIRECT can be used instead +Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- @@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ Who: Paul E. McKenney --------------------------- +What: remove verify_area() +When: July 2006 +Files: Various uaccess.h headers. +Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. +Who: Jesper Juhl + +--------------------------- + What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, Connection Management Procedures driver When: November 2005 @@ -83,3 +91,41 @@ Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394 access anyway. Who: Jody McIntyre + +--------------------------- + +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 +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