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-What: drivers that were depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
- (config options already removed)
-When: before 2.6.19
-Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
When: November 2006
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
---------------------------
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
-When: July 2006
+When: December 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
---------------------------
-What: sys_sysctl
-When: January 2007
-Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
- interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
- any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional
- maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
- in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
-
-Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
---------------------------
-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>
-
----------------------------
-
What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007
Why: replaced by the e100 driver
---------------------------
What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: Febuary 2008
+When: February 2008
Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been
possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs
---------------------------
-What: Support for the Momentum / PMC-Sierra Jaguar ATX evaluation board
-When: September 2006
-Why: Does no longer build since quite some time, and was never popular,
- due to the platform being replaced by successor models. Apparently
- no user base left. It also is one of the last users of
- WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Support for the Momentum Ocelot, Ocelot 3, Ocelot C and Ocelot G
-When: September 2006
-Why: Some do no longer build and apparently there is no user base left
- for these platforms.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Support for MIPS Technologies' Altas and SEAD evaluation board
-When: September 2006
-Why: Some do no longer build and apparently there is no user base left
- for these platforms. Hardware out of production since several years.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: Support for the IT8172-based platforms, ITE 8172G and Globespan IVR
-When: September 2006
-Why: Code does no longer build since at least 2.6.0, apparently there is
- no user base left for these platforms. Hardware out of production
- since several years and hardly a trace of the manufacturer left on
- the net.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
When: Januar 2007
Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment
-When: Oktober 2008
+When: October 2008
Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
inconsistent.
Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus
Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: ftape
+When: 2.6.20
+Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left
+ in the world.
+Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
+
+---------------------------
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