---------------------------
+What: old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+When: 2.6.29
+Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
+ which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
+ not want to keep static regulatory domains in the kernel due to the
+ the dynamic nature of regulatory law and localization. We kept around
+ the old static definitions for the regulatory domains of:
+ * US
+ * JP
+ * EU
+ and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
+ set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
+ some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
+ can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
+Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: dev->power.power_state
When: July 2007
Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing
---------------------------
-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 2008
Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h
---------------------------
-What: eepro100 network driver
-When: January 2007
-Why: replaced by the e100 driver
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.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: 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 <xemul@openvz.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
---------------------------
-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 2010
---------------------------
-What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4
-When: May 2008
-Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What (Why):
- include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files
(superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match)
- xt_mark match revision 0
(superseded by xt_mark match revision 1)
+ - xt_recent: the old ipt_recent proc dir
+ (superseded by /proc/net/xt_recent)
+
When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, whichever comes first
Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules
Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
---------------------------
-What: init_mm export
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
- work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved
- by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code
- of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such
- code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
- out-of-tree driver.
-Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
When: 2.6.27
Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
---------------------------
-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 <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
+What: remove HID compat support
+When: 2.6.29
+Why: needed only as a temporary solution until distros fix themselves up
+Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol()
+When: October 2009
+Why: The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a
+ simpler way. print_fn_descriptor_symbol() is deprecated but
+ still present to give out-of-tree modules time to change.
+Who: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-What: asm/semaphore.h
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
- linux/semaphore.h instead.
-Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.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: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
ways (ioctls)
Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+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 <ole@ans.pl>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: i2c_attach_client(), i2c_detach_client(), i2c_driver->detach_client()
+When: 2.6.29 (ideally) or 2.6.30 (more likely)
+Why: Deprecated by the new (standard) device driver binding model. Use
+ i2c_driver->probe() and ->remove() instead.
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: fscher and fscpos drivers
+When: June 2009
+Why: Deprecated by the new fschmd driver.
+Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
+ Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: SELinux "compat_net" functionality
+When: 2.6.30 at the earliest
+Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net"
+ network access control functionality of SELinux. Secmark offers both
+ better performance and greater flexibility than the "compat_net"
+ mechanism. Now that the major Linux distributions have moved to
+ Secmark, it is time to deprecate the older mechanism and start the
+ process of removing the old code.
+Who: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
+---------------------------
+
+What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters
+When: September 2009
+Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and
+ e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6.
+ Removal is subject to fixing any remaining bugs in ACPI which may
+ cause the thermal throttling not to happen at the right time.
+Who: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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