X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=19b4c96b2a495a3f0f1bf3a152bab0095eba8700;hb=8a065975c1c00d1ab3293c1adf6f89988bb1b03b;hp=fa844fd7bded4004f1c050e8cc5bc719210c1452;hpb=81b7bbd1932a04869d4c8635a75222dfc6089f96;p=powerpc.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fa844fd7bd..19b4c96b2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy , Stefan Richter --------------------------- -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 , Stefan Richter - ---------------------------- - 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 @@ -215,6 +204,13 @@ Who: Jean Delvare , --------------------------- +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 + +--------------------------- + What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers When: 2.6.22 Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old @@ -246,29 +242,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- -<<<<<<< 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 - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for @@ -299,16 +272,44 @@ Who: Len Brown --------------------------- -What: JFFS (version 1) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. -Who: Jeff Garzik - ---------------------------- - 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 +--------------------------- + +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 + +--------------------------- + +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 + +--------------------------- + +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 + +---------------------------