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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b730d765b525..495858b236b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> --------------------------- +What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) +When: August 2006 +Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c +Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should + use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from + implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that + prevents bugs and code duplication +Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> + +--------------------------- + What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash) When: January 2006 Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead. @@ -151,10 +162,10 @@ Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> --------------------------- -What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC) -When: March 2006 -Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8) -Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> +What: eepro100 network driver +When: January 2007 +Why: replaced by the e100 driver +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- @@ -165,9 +176,68 @@ Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@s --------------------------- +What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer +When: March 2007 +Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This + was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were + silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. + Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed + and the timevals are sanitized. + +Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> + +--------------------------- + What: I2C interface of the it87 driver When: January 2007 Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see bug #5889.) Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock) +When: August 2006 +Files: kernel/fork.c +Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have + no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due + to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents + moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list. +Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: mount/umount uevents +When: February 2007 +Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know + when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should + poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. +When: June 2006 +Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no + users have complained indicating there is no more need for these + boards. This should really be considered a last call. +Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL +When: Febuary 2008 +Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c +Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been + possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs + that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB + subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to + register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs + any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the + userspace filesystems, please contact the + linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers + there will be glad to help you out. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- |