X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=d05e6243b4df2b0bc0db3d58e1105644a91ba48d;hb=851a8a7fd451db3dcd5d44d784083f0f66b24d57;hp=062fc2e79c8610034a5555c5108f75c1430e4b97;hpb=50b65cc6fa3a69bdfbc8b3342d8ca6ddbbf5ec88;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 062fc2e79c86..d05e6243b4df 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -41,14 +41,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- -What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) -When: December 2005 -Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 - O_DIRECT can be used instead -Who: Adrian Bunk - ---------------------------- - What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level @@ -119,13 +111,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE_DRIVER -When: options in 2.6.20, code in 2.6.22 -Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements -Who: Adrian Bunk - ---------------------------- - 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. @@ -196,28 +181,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -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 - functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only - difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions. - One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of - speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq. - That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep - capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of - speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on - non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and - less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers - going out of sync. - Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to - switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue - to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this - date. - -Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for @@ -286,6 +249,14 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- +What: 'time' kernel boot parameter +When: January 2008 +Why: replaced by 'printk.time=' so that printk timestamps can be + enabled or disabled as needed +Who: Randy Dunlap + +--------------------------- + What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 Why: obsolete OSS drivers @@ -311,6 +282,13 @@ Who: Tejun Heo --------------------------- +What: Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips) +When: November 2007 +Why: Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers. +Who: Jean Delvare + +--------------------------- + What: iptables SAME target When: 1.1. 2008 Files: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h @@ -319,3 +297,16 @@ Why: Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour. Who: Patrick McHardy --------------------------- + +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +---------------------------