X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=a5cb7839a679eadc040c71a6db06d33af5083ffc;hb=6a38abbf2b68e37493f2d5e8702b895a6c23ba0f;hp=092c65dd35c2e9dd4fdf4f24cd6a6b1f8e64bc84;hpb=68485695e5a84399da7b48b208ac42623fe22963;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 092c65dd35..a5cb7839a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil and --------------------------- -What: /sys/devices/.../power/state - dev->power.power_state - dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)() +What: dev->power.power_state When: July 2007 Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support @@ -41,14 +39,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level @@ -61,6 +51,7 @@ Who: David Miller What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2006 Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h +Check: include/linux/video_decoder.h Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is @@ -94,7 +85,7 @@ Who: Dominik Brodowski What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c -Funcs: kernel_thread +Check: kernel_thread Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should use the API instead which shields them from implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that @@ -119,13 +110,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE_DRIVER -When: options in 2.6.20, code in 2.6.22 -Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements -Who: Adrian Bunk - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. @@ -152,6 +136,15 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman --------------------------- +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: Interrupt only SA_* flags When: September 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them @@ -171,15 +164,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers --------------------------- -What: i2c-isa -When: December 2006 -Why: i2c-isa is a non-sense and doesn't fit in the device driver - model. Drivers relying on it are better implemented as platform - drivers. -Who: Jean Delvare - ---------------------------- - What: i2c_adapter.list When: July 2007 Why: Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver @@ -264,6 +248,14 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- +What: 'time' kernel boot parameter +When: January 2008 +Why: replaced by 'printk.time=' so that printk timestamps can be + enabled or disabled as needed +Who: Randy Dunlap + +--------------------------- + What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 Why: obsolete OSS drivers @@ -304,3 +296,26 @@ Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour. Who: Patrick McHardy --------------------------- + +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +--------------------------- + +What: mthca driver's MSI support +When: January 2008 +Files: drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/*.[ch] +Why: All mthca hardware also supports MSI-X, which provides + strictly more functionality than MSI. So there is no point in + having both MSI-X and MSI support in the driver. +Who: Roland Dreier + +---------------------------