---------------------------
-What: ACPI S4bios support
-When: May 2005
-Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is
- faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it.
-Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
+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 <bunk@stusta.de>
---------------------------
-What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES)
-When: July 2005
-Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better
- (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the
- pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time.
+What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
+When: January 2006
+Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
+When: April 2006
+Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
+Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
+ vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
+ VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
+ drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
+ are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
+ So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
+ people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
+ of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
+Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
+When: November 2005
+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 <scjody@steamballoon.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
+When: July 2006
+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
+ already available on the main drivers and should be used instead.
+ Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle
+ old calls, replacing to newer ones.
+ Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to
+ communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow
+ V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls.
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
+When: April 2006
+Files: kernel/panic.c
+Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
+When: April 2006
+Files: kernel/resource.c
+Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+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 <linux@brodo.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+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 <laforge@netfilter.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
+When: January 2006
+Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
+When: June 2006
+Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
+ 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
+ the option should just go away entirely.
+Who: Arjan van de Ven
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
+When: July 2006
+Files: drivers/md/md.c
+Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
+ Alternatives exist
+Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: au1x00_uart driver
+When: January 2006
+Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
+ between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
+ brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
+ issue.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC)
+When: March 2006
+Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8)
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+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: I2C interface of the it87 driver
+When: January 2007
+Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
+ probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see
+ bug #5889.)
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: mount/umount uevents
+When: February 2007
+Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
+ when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should
+ poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly.
Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---------------------------
-What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function)
-When: September 2005
-Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space
- addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64
- iospace as part of the pfn.
-Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
+What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
+When: June 2006
+Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
+ users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
+ boards. This should really be considered a last call.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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