---------------------------
+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)()
---------------------------
-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
---------------------------
-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
---------------------------
-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: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS
+When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24
+Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-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-Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years.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
replaced by the skge driver.
Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
+---------------------------
+
+What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation
+When: Oct 2007
+Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c
+Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
+ tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and
+ much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no
+ longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to
+ use tslib by now.
+ The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have
+ it loaded when they don't need/use it.
+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>
+
+---------------------------
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