X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=83c88cae1eda446a12562a34f2c10f1a3f8cf5c2;hb=b911e473d24633c19414b54b82b9ff0b1a2419d7;hp=57eadfdfd88b0996865b10a55368a90fb55f5c96;hpb=548c36e983f346621b5cb9ab031e4383e9996576;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 57eadfd..83c88ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -19,15 +19,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- -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 - Christoph Hellwig - ---------------------------- - What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2008 Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h @@ -47,6 +38,30 @@ 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 @@ -128,15 +143,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven --------------------------- -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: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and @@ -172,16 +178,6 @@ Who: Len Brown --------------------------- -What: ide-tape driver -When: July 2008 -Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c -Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no - reason is an effort no one wants to make. -Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Borislav Petkov - - ---------------------------- - What: libata spindown skipping and warning When: Dec 2008 Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin @@ -200,21 +196,8 @@ Who: Tejun Heo --------------------------- -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: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks -When: April 2008 +When: April 2010 Why: The i386/x86_64 merge provides a symlink to the old bzImage location so not yet updated user space tools, e.g. package @@ -223,40 +206,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner --------------------------- -What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4 -When: May 2008 -Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb. -Who: Jean Delvare - ---------------------------- - -What: bcm43xx wireless network driver -When: 2.6.26 -Files: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx -Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the - mac80211-based b43 and b43legacy drivers. -Who: John W. Linville - ---------------------------- - -What: ieee80211 softmac wireless networking component -When: 2.6.26 (or after removal of bcm43xx and port of zd1211rw to mac80211) -Files: net/ieee80211/softmac -Why: No in-kernel drivers will depend on it any longer. -Who: John W. Linville - ---------------------------- - -What: rc80211-simple rate control algorithm for mac80211 -When: 2.6.26 -Files: net/mac80211/rc80211-simple.c -Why: This algorithm was provided for reference but always exhibited bad - responsiveness and performance and has some serious flaws. It has been - replaced by rc80211-pid. -Who: Stefano Brivio - ---------------------------- - What (Why): - include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files (superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match) @@ -298,17 +247,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch --------------------------- -What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc -When: 2.6.26 -Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system - layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to - /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work - is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most - trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. -Who: David S. Miller - ---------------------------- - What: init_mm export When: 2.6.26 Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to @@ -318,3 +256,77 @@ Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some out-of-tree driver. Who: Thomas Gleixner + +---------------------------- + +What: usedac i386 kernel parameter +When: 2.6.27 +Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination +Who: Glauber Costa + +--------------------------- + +What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. +Who: Sebastian Siewior + +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/o2cb symlink +When: January 2010 +Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb + exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of + ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions + which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. +Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com + +--------------------------- + +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 +Why: A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that + removes the limitions of the old API. The sctp library has been + converted to use these new options at the same time. Any user + space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using + the new options. +Who: Vlad Yasevich + +--------------------------- + +What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON +When: January 2009 +Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace + to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of + removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available. +Who: Rene Herman + +--------------------------- + +What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS + (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) +When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches + for enough time, probably some time in 2010. +Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other + ways (ioctls) +Who: Johannes Berg + +--------------------------- + +What: CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT +When: 2.6.29 +Why: Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation. + Currently used only to set a default value for a feature that is also + controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter. +Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki + +--------------------------- + +What: ide-scsi (BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) +When: 2.6.29 +Why: The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide CD drives, which + eliminates the need for ide-scsi. The new method is more + efficient in every way. +Who: FUJITA Tomonori