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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
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>
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+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.
+Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: /proc/acpi/button
When: August 2007
Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer