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-The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
-removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what
-exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing
-the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also
-be removed from this file.
-
----------------------------
-
-What: devfs
-When: July 2005
-Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
- function calls throughout the kernel tree
-Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
- races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
- against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
-Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
-
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-
-What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
-When: December 2005
-Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
- O_DIRECT can be used instead
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
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-
-What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
-When: January 2006
-Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: April 2006
-Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
-Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
- vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
- VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
- drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
- are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
- So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
- people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
- of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
-Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When: November 2005
-Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
- more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394
- access anyway.
-Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
-
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-
-What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
-When: July 2006
-Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
- series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
- means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
- already available on the main drivers and should be used instead.
- Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle
- old calls, replacing to newer ones.
- Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to
- communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow
- V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls.
-Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
-
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-
-What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
-When: April 2006
-Files: kernel/panic.c
-Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
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-
-What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
-When: April 2006
-Files: kernel/resource.c
-Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
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-
-What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
-When: November 2005
-Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
-Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a
- normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel
- infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA
- control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is
- unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the
- PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more
- difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either
- handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new
- pcmciautils package available at
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/
-Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue)
-When: December 2005
-Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent
- "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old
- ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle
- all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have
- to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue
- instead of the current 'libipq'.
-Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
-When: January 2006
-Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
-Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
-When: June 2006
-Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
- 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
- the option should just go away entirely.
-Who: Arjan van de Ven
-
----------------------------
-
-What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
-When: July 2006
-Files: drivers/md/md.c
-Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
- Alternatives exist
-Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
-
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-
-What: au1x00_uart driver
-When: January 2006
-Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
- between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
- brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
- issue.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC)
-When: March 2006
-Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8)
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: pci_module_init(driver)
-When: January 2007
-Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver).
-Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
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-
-What: I2C interface of the it87 driver
-When: January 2007
-Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
- probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see
- bug #5889.)
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
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-
-What: mount/umount uevents
-When: February 2007
-Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
- when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should
- poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly.
-Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
-When: June 2006
-Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
- users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
- boards. This should really be considered a last call.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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