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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 2dc5e5da8f8..c585aa8d62b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -50,22 +50,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --------------------------- -What: ieee1394 core's unused exports (CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API) -When: January 2007 -Why: There are no projects known to use these exported symbols, except - dfg1394 (uses one symbol whose functionality is core-internal now). -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - -What: ieee1394's *_oui sysfs attributes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB) -When: January 2007 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh -Why: big size, little value -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - 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 @@ -186,18 +170,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --------------------------- -What: find_trylock_page -When: January 2007 -Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It - is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in - that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock. - It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible. - This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface - cannot cleanly use something else. -Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Interrupt only SA_* flags When: Januar 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them @@ -243,6 +215,13 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, --------------------------- +What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS +When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24 +Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers When: 2.6.22 Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old @@ -340,3 +319,18 @@ Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver replaced by the skge driver. Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> +--------------------------- + +What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation +When: Oct 2007 +Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c +Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. + tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and + much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no + longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to + use tslib by now. + The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have + it loaded when they don't need/use it. +Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> + +--------------------------- |