X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=0ba6af02cdaf9ce2b48b11767d54ad06d4ff918e;hb=595dcfecf642c8b0772989ed46f15ee03c25a205;hp=f2024df7ebe52985461912c4bab25179c9e956b1;hpb=4497fe1e88cdee984925c2b477e5c73379e00620;p=powerpc.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f2024df7eb..0ba6af02cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -273,3 +273,55 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- + +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 + +--------------------------- + +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Len Brown + +--------------------------- + +What: /proc/acpi/button +When: August 2007 +Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer + since 2.6.20. +Who: Len Brown + +--------------------------- + +What: JFFS (version 1) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. +Who: Jeff Garzik + +---------------------------