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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index d6d183f24cc9..c6322c760348 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: MXSER +When: December 2007 +Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet + and remove it. +Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> + +--------------------------- + What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP When: October 2007 Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are @@ -51,6 +59,15 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --------------------------- +What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can 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 2006 Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 @@ -117,25 +134,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: pci_module_init(driver) -When: January 2007 -Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver). -Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> - ---------------------------- - -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: 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. @@ -163,7 +161,7 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --------------------------- What: Interrupt only SA_* flags -When: Januar 2007 +When: September 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them out of the signal namespace. @@ -190,18 +188,10 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- -What: i2c_adapter.dev - i2c_adapter.list +What: i2c_adapter.list When: July 2007 -Why: Superfluous, given i2c_adapter.class_dev: - * The "dev" was a stand-in for the physical device node that legacy - drivers would not have; but now it's almost always present. Any - remaining legacy drivers must upgrade (they now trigger warnings). - * The "list" duplicates class device children. - The delay in removing this is so upgraded lm_sensors and libsensors - can get deployed. (Removal causes minor changes in the sysfs layout, - notably the location of the adapter type name and parenting the i2c - client hardware directly from their controller.) +Why: Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver + core. Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -306,3 +296,35 @@ Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> --------------------------- + +What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) +When: December 2007 +Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several + problems: + - Duplication of checks that are done in the device driver's + interrupt handler + - common I/O layer can't do device specific error recovery + - device driver can't be notified for conditions happening during + execution of the function + Device drivers should issue the read device characteristics and read + configuration data ccws and do the appropriate error handling + themselves. +Who: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers +When: September 2007 +Why: Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific + I2C-over-GPIO drivers. +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE +When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 +Why: obsolete OSS drivers +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + |