+What: CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT
+When: 2.6.33
+Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon.
+Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_INOTIFY
+When: 2.6.33
+Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic
+ and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem
+Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be
+ exported interface anymore.
+When: 2.6.33
+Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to
+ cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent
+ drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues.
+Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: sound-slot/service-* module aliases and related clutters in
+ sound/sound_core.c
+When: August 2010
+Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR
+ (14) and requests modules using custom sound-slot/service-*
+ module aliases. The only benefit of doing this is allowing
+ use of custom module aliases which might as well be considered
+ a bug at this point. This preemptive claiming prevents
+ alternative OSS implementations.
+
+ Till the feature is removed, the kernel will be requesting
+ both sound-slot/service-* and the standard char-major-* module
+ aliases and allow turning off the pre-claiming selectively via
+ CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM and soundcore.preclaim_oss
+ kernel parameter.
+
+ After the transition phase is complete, both the custom module
+ aliases and switches to disable it will go away. This removal
+ will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of
+ sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too.
+Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be
+ dropped.
+When: 2.6.37 or earlier.
+Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
+ from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
+ techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
+ These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
+ performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
+ expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
+ years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
+ feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the
+ Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if
+ technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops)
+ arise.
+
+ Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
+ still work fine on VMware's platform.
+ Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
+ Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
+ releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
+
+ For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
+ http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
+
+Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: adt7473 hardware monitoring driver
+When: February 2010
+Why: Obsoleted by the adt7475 driver.