X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=bc693fffabe08d1fcd06ba14747b2017556e14ed;hp=54f93579492294ef117ac1bc509b1f8403cc484c;hb=9a1607071c293e48b08bd703733480b1d55c7b93;hpb=84899a2b9adaf6c2e20d198d7c24562ce6b391d8 diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 54f9357..bc693ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: PRISM54 +When: 2.6.34 + +Why: prism54 FullMAC PCI / Cardbus devices used to be supported only by the + prism54 wireless driver. After Intersil stopped selling these + devices in preference for the newer more flexible SoftMAC devices + a SoftMAC device driver was required and prism54 did not support + them. The p54pci driver now exists and has been present in the kernel for + a while. This driver supports both SoftMAC devices and FullMAC devices. + The main difference between these devices was the amount of memory which + could be used for the firmware. The SoftMAC devices support a smaller + amount of memory. Because of this the SoftMAC firmware fits into FullMAC + devices's memory. p54pci supports not only PCI / Cardbus but also USB + and SPI. Since p54pci supports all devices prism54 supports + you will have a conflict. I'm not quite sure how distributions are + handling this conflict right now. prism54 was kept around due to + claims users may experience issues when using the SoftMAC driver. + Time has passed users have not reported issues. If you use prism54 + and for whatever reason you cannot use p54pci please let us know! + E-mail us at: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org + + For more information see the p54 wiki page: + + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54 + +Who: Luis R. Rodriguez + +--------------------------- + What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM When: July 2009 @@ -206,24 +235,6 @@ Who: Len Brown --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks When: April 2010 @@ -235,19 +246,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner --------------------------- What (Why): - - "forwarding" header files like ipt_mac.h in - include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ and include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ - - - xt_conntrack match revision 0 - (superseded by xt_conntrack match revision 1) - - - xt_iprange match revision 0, - include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_iprange.h - (superseded by xt_iprange match revision 1) - - - 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) @@ -356,14 +354,6 @@ Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki --------------------------- -What: fscher and fscpos drivers -When: June 2009 -Why: Deprecated by the new fschmd driver. -Who: Hans de Goede - Jean Delvare - ---------------------------- - What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters When: September 2009 Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and @@ -382,15 +372,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner ----------------------------- -What: obsolete generic irq defines and typedefs -When: 2.6.30 -Why: The defines and typedefs (hw_interrupt_type, no_irq_type, irq_desc_t) - have been kept around for migration reasons. After more than two years - it's time to remove them finally -Who: Thomas Gleixner - ---------------------------- - What: fakephp and associated sysfs files in /sys/bus/pci/slots/ When: 2011 Why: In 2.6.27, the semantics of /sys/bus/pci/slots was redefined to @@ -437,12 +418,74 @@ When: 2.6.33 Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. Who: Johannes Berg +--------------------------- + +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 + ---------------------------- -What: CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE -When: 2.6.32 -Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been - superseded by the newer machine check code from the 64bit port, - but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this - doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. -Who: Andi Kleen +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 + +---------------------------- + +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 + +---------------------------- + +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 + +----------------------------