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-<<<<<<< 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>
-
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-
What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
When: 2.6.21
Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for
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-What: JFFS (version 1)
-When: 2.6.21
-Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years.
-Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
-
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-
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: Wireless extensions over netlink (CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK)
+When: with the merge of wireless-dev, 2.6.22 or later
+Why: The option/code is
+ * not enabled on most kernels
+ * not required by any userspace tools (except an experimental one,
+ and even there only for some parts, others use ioctl)
+ * pointless since wext is no longer evolving and the ioctl
+ interface needs to be kept
+Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+---------------------------
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