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| author |   Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-02-16 22:11:02 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-02-16 22:11:02 -0500 |
| commit | 8800c0ebf5e8363dab66647512dcef5b83203dec (patch) | |
| tree | 2576b0ab6177554409ab7e62fb411c6b5487d64d /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | Pull sony into release branch (diff) | |
| parent | ACPI: hotkey: remove driver, per feature-removal-schedule.txt (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8800c0ebf5e8363dab66647512dcef5b83203dec.tar.xz linux-dev-8800c0ebf5e8363dab66647512dcef5b83203dec.zip | |
Pull remove-hotkey into release branch
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c585aa8d62b4..28f897fd3674 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -253,29 +253,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- -<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt -What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use - ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented - in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented - vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than - the same. - - Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform - are different, so there will always be a need for - platform-specific drivers. - - So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the - platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same - to the user when they supply the same features. - - hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - -Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for |