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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 22f10818c2b3..b3f35e5f9c95 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -193,6 +193,20 @@ Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's --------------------------- +What: CS5535/CS5536 obsolete GPIO driver +When: June 2011 +Files: drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/* +Check: drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c +Why: A newer driver replaces this; it is drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c, and + integrates with the Linux GPIO subsystem. The old driver has been + moved to staging, and will be removed altogether around 2.6.40. + Please test the new driver, and ensure that the functionality you + need and any bugfixes from the old driver are available in the new + one. +Who: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> + +-------------------------- + What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c @@ -234,6 +248,17 @@ Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> --------------------------- +What: CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER +When: 2.6.39 +Why: sysfs I/F for ACPI power devices, including AC and Battery, + has been working in upstream kenrel since 2.6.24, Sep 2007. + In 2.6.37, we make the sysfs I/F always built in and this option + disabled by default. + Remove this option and the ACPI power procfs interface in 2.6.39. +Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + What: /proc/acpi/button When: August 2007 Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer @@ -332,14 +357,6 @@ Who: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> ----------------------------- -What: __do_IRQ all in one fits nothing interrupt handler -When: 2.6.32 -Why: __do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers. - More than two years of migration time is enough. -Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - ------------------------------ - 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Why: In 2.6.27, the semantics of /sys/bus/pci/slots was redefined to @@ -576,3 +593,29 @@ Why: The functions have been superceded by cancel_delayed_work_sync() Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> ---------------------------- + +What: Legacy, non-standard chassis intrusion detection interface. +When: June 2011 +Why: The adm9240, w83792d and w83793 hardware monitoring drivers have + legacy interfaces for chassis intrusion detection. A standard + interface has been added to each driver, so the legacy interface + can be removed. +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: noswapaccount kernel command line parameter +When: 2.6.40 +Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by + CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP could be disabled by the noswapaccount + kernel parameter (introduced in 2.6.29-rc1). Later on, this decision + turned out to be not ideal because we cannot have the feature compiled + in and disabled by default and let only interested to enable it + (e.g. general distribution kernels might need it). Therefore we have + added swapaccount[=0|1] parameter (introduced in 2.6.37) which provides + the both possibilities. If we remove noswapaccount we will have + less command line parameters with the same functionality and we + can also cleanup the parameter handling a bit (). +Who: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> + +---------------------------- |