X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=28f897fd367490797384e98d2fffa5dc69eb9740;hb=8800c0ebf5e8363dab66647512dcef5b83203dec;hp=c585aa8d62b430fc4c052253f8db7fd38bd0e2cc;hpb=9cdd79c9b99873d600d397fda012fc3f57cc2776;p=linux-beck.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c585aa8d62b4..28f897fd3674 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -253,29 +253,6 @@ 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