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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c585aa8d62b4..5c88ba1ea262 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP +When: October 2007 +Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are + not able to implement the wide variety of parameters that can be set + by hardware MPEG encoders. A new MPEG control mechanism was created + in kernel 2.6.18 that replaces these ioctls. See the V4L2 specification + (section 1.9: Extended controls) for more information on this topic. +Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> and + Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> + +--------------------------- + What: /sys/devices/.../power/state dev->power.power_state dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)() @@ -39,17 +51,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --------------------------- -What: dv1394 driver (CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394) -When: June 2007 -Why: Replaced by raw1394 + userspace libraries, notably libiec61883. This - shift of application support has been indicated on www.linux1394.org - and developers' mailinglists for quite some time. Major applications - have been converted, with the exception of ffmpeg and hence xine. - Piped output of dvgrab2 is a partial equivalent to dv1394. -Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.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 @@ -145,15 +146,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> --------------------------- -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: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: February 2008 Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -222,15 +214,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers -When: 2.6.22 -Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old - IPv4 only version. After some stabilization of the new code the - old one will be removed. -Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver When: December 2006 Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are @@ -253,29 +236,6 @@ 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 @@ -306,13 +266,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -What: JFFS (version 1) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. -Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> - ---------------------------- - What: sk98lin network driver When: July 2007 Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver @@ -334,3 +287,30 @@ Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> --------------------------- + +What: i8xx_tco watchdog driver +When: in 2.6.22 +Why: the i8xx_tco watchdog driver has been replaced by the iTCO_wdt + watchdog driver. +Who: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> + +--------------------------- + +What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4 +When: in 2.6.23 +Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving + us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have + been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's + implementation are blocking more critical core networking + development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution + enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs + (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be + handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling + errors impossible too because they get called after we've + totally commited to creating a route object, for example). + This problem has existed for years and no forward progress + has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage + this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it. +Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> + +--------------------------- |