X-Git-Url: http://git.agner.ch/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=676b7981adb771d5185c5bedd4c286ebc81d66f3;hb=6ec129c3a2f8b38bc37e42348470ccfcb7460146;hp=6da663607f7b6c7fe9322d6d93918a0c205f2d32;hpb=0278ef8b484a71917bd4f03a763285cdaac10954;p=linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 6da663607f7b..676b7981adb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,26 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: MXSER +When: December 2007 +Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet + and remove it. +Who: Jiri Slaby + +--------------------------- + +What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP +When: October 2007 +Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are + not able to implement the wide variety of parameters that can be set + by hardware MPEG encoders. A new MPEG control mechanism was created + in kernel 2.6.18 that replaces these ioctls. See the V4L2 specification + (section 1.9: Extended controls) for more information on this topic. +Who: Hans Verkuil and + Mauro Carvalho Chehab + +--------------------------- + What: /sys/devices/.../power/state dev->power.power_state dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)() @@ -39,6 +59,15 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy , Stefan Richter --------------------------- +What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can ported over almost trivially. +Who: David Miller + Christoph Hellwig + +--------------------------- + 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 @@ -105,25 +134,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: pci_module_init(driver) -When: January 2007 -Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver). -Who: Richard Knutsson and Greg Kroah-Hartman - ---------------------------- - -What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer -When: March 2007 -Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This - was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were - silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. - Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed - and the timevals are sanitized. - -Who: Thomas Gleixner - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. @@ -134,15 +144,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: February 2008 Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman --------------------------- What: Interrupt only SA_* flags -When: Januar 2007 +When: September 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them out of the signal namespace. @@ -187,18 +188,10 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- -What: i2c_adapter.dev - i2c_adapter.list +What: i2c_adapter.list When: July 2007 -Why: Superfluous, given i2c_adapter.class_dev: - * The "dev" was a stand-in for the physical device node that legacy - drivers would not have; but now it's almost always present. Any - remaining legacy drivers must upgrade (they now trigger warnings). - * The "list" duplicates class device children. - The delay in removing this is so upgraded lm_sensors and libsensors - can get deployed. (Removal causes minor changes in the sysfs layout, - notably the location of the adapter type name and parenting the i2c - client hardware directly from their controller.) +Why: Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver + core. Who: Jean Delvare , David Brownell @@ -311,3 +304,35 @@ Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving Who: David S. Miller --------------------------- + +What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) +When: December 2007 +Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several + problems: + - Duplication of checks that are done in the device driver's + interrupt handler + - common I/O layer can't do device specific error recovery + - device driver can't be notified for conditions happening during + execution of the function + Device drivers should issue the read device characteristics and read + configuration data ccws and do the appropriate error handling + themselves. +Who: Cornelia Huck + +--------------------------- + +What: i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers +When: September 2007 +Why: Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific + I2C-over-GPIO drivers. +Who: Jean Delvare + +--------------------------- + +What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE +When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 +Why: obsolete OSS drivers +Who: Adrian Bunk + +--------------------------- +