---------------------------
-What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
-When: January 2006
+What: drivers that were depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
+ (config options already removed)
+When: before 2.6.19
Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
---------------------------
-What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,
- Connection Management Procedures driver
-When: November 2005
-Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}*
-Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented
- in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for
- example.)
-Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
When: November 2005
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
---------------------------
-What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid
-When: November 2005
-Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c
-Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names
- will be available until removal of old names.
-Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
-When: April 2006
-Files: kernel/panic.c
-Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
When: April 2006
Files: kernel/resource.c
---------------------------
-What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
-When: January 2006
-Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
+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: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
+When: June 2006
+Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
+ 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
+ the option should just go away entirely.
+Who: Arjan van de Ven
+
+---------------------------
+
What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
When: July 2006
Files: drivers/md/md.c
brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
issue.
Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: eepro100 network driver
+When: January 2007
+Why: replaced by the e100 driver
+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: 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>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: find_trylock_page
+When: January 2007
+Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It
+ is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in
+ that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock.
+ It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible.
+ This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface
+ cannot cleanly use something else.
+Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
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