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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index d05e6243b4df..c175eedadb5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> and --------------------------- -What: /sys/devices/.../power/state - dev->power.power_state - dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)() +What: dev->power.power_state When: July 2007 Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support @@ -53,6 +51,7 @@ Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2006 Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h +Check: include/linux/video_decoder.h Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is @@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c -Funcs: kernel_thread +Check: kernel_thread 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 @@ -137,6 +136,15 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --------------------------- +What: vm_ops.nopage +When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted +Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around + forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to + maintain. +Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + What: Interrupt only SA_* flags When: September 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them @@ -156,15 +164,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> --------------------------- -What: i2c-isa -When: December 2006 -Why: i2c-isa is a non-sense and doesn't fit in the device driver - model. Drivers relying on it are better implemented as platform - drivers. -Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> - ---------------------------- - What: i2c_adapter.list When: July 2007 Why: Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver @@ -181,24 +180,11 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace -When: 2.6.21 -Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for - the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary - and have no place being exposed to user-space. - - For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, - the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump - and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: - http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils -Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface -When: July 2007 -Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated - in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. +When: July 2008 +Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. + ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that + there is enough time for the user space to catch up. Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> --------------------------- @@ -310,3 +296,13 @@ Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org --------------------------- + +What: mthca driver's MSI support +When: January 2008 +Files: drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/*.[ch] +Why: All mthca hardware also supports MSI-X, which provides + strictly more functionality than MSI. So there is no point in + having both MSI-X and MSI support in the driver. +Who: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> + +--------------------------- |