---------------------------
+What: MXSER
+When: December 2007
+Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet
+ and remove it.
+Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP
When: October 2007
Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are
---------------------------
-What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When: June 2007
-Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.
- Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394
- (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv,
- raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394.
-Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
+What: old NCR53C9x driver
+When: October 2007
+Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
+ driver can be ported over almost trivially.
+Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+ Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---------------------------
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006
+Files: 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
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006
Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
+Funcs: kernel_thread
Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should
use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
---------------------------
-What: pci_module_init(driver)
-When: January 2007
-Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver).
-Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer
-When: March 2007
-Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This
- was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were
- silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals.
- Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed
- and the timevals are sanitized.
-
-Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-
----------------------------
-
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.
---------------------------
What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
-When: Januar 2007
+When: September 2007
Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
out of the signal namespace.
---------------------------
-What: sk98lin network driver
-When: July 2007
-Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
- replaced by the skge driver.
-Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation
When: Oct 2007
Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c
---------------------------
-What: i8xx_tco watchdog driver
-When: in 2.6.22
-Why: the i8xx_tco watchdog driver has been replaced by the iTCO_wdt
- watchdog driver.
-Who: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4
-When: in 2.6.23
-Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving
- us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have
- been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's
- implementation are blocking more critical core networking
- development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution
- enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs
- (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be
- handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling
- errors impossible too because they get called after we've
- totally commited to creating a route object, for example).
- This problem has existed for years and no forward progress
- has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage
- this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it.
-Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
----------------------------
-
What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer)
When: December 2007
Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several
Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE
+When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25
+Why: obsolete OSS drivers
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: libata spindown skipping and warning
+When: Dec 2008
+Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
+ down libata disks because libata didn't use to spin down disk on
+ system halt (only synchronized caches).
+ Spin down on system halt is now implemented. sysfs node
+ /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop is present if
+ spin down support is available.
+ Because issuing spin down command to an already spun down disk
+ makes some disks spin up just to spin down again, libata tracks
+ device spindown status to skip the extra spindown command and
+ warn about it.
+ This is to give userspace tools the time to get updated and will
+ be removed after userspace is reasonably updated.
+Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips)
+When: November 2007
+Why: Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers.
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: iptables SAME target
+When: 1.1. 2008
+Files: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h
+Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour.
+ Unfixable broken wrt. 32/64 bit cleanness.
+Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
+
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