X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=c23955404bf5d5056f7ddf448ea52415b6d3adfd;hb=c1e24df27fb1058739789126db6ad1b1ef719346;hp=9f73587219e87a601f361b0942530888e56c3303;hpb=6d52dcbe56ca8464bcad56d98a64bcd781596663;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9f73587219..c23955404b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -47,6 +47,30 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- +What: old tuner-3036 i2c driver +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver is for VERY old i2c-over-parallel port teletext receiver + boxes. Rather then spending effort on converting this driver to V4L2, + and since it is extremely unlikely that anyone still uses one of these + devices, it was decided to drop it. +Who: Hans Verkuil + Mauro Carvalho Chehab + + --------------------------- + +What: V4L2 dpc7146 driver +When: 2.6.28 +Why: Old driver for the dpc7146 demonstration board that is no longer + relevant. The last time this was tested on actual hardware was + probably around 2002. Since this is a driver for a demonstration + board the decision was made to remove it rather than spending a + lot of effort continually updating this driver to stay in sync + with the latest internal V4L2 or I2C API. +Who: Hans Verkuil + Mauro Carvalho Chehab + +--------------------------- + What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c @@ -138,24 +162,6 @@ 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. @@ -300,14 +306,6 @@ 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 - ---------------------------- - What: SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD When: June 2009