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@@ -128,15 +128,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---------------------------
-What: vm_ops.nopage
-When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
-Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
- forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
- maintain.
-Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment
When: October 2008
Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
@@ -147,6 +138,24 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
---------------------------
+What: find_task_by_pid
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the
+ wrong task when called from inside a namespace.
+
+ The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this
+ pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get
+ it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later.
+
+ If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then
+ he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the
+ task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but
+ this may be not so in general.
+
+Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
@@ -261,17 +270,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
---------------------------
-What: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
- layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
- /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work
- is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
- trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
-Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
----------------------------
-
What: init_mm export
When: 2.6.26
Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
@@ -282,6 +280,13 @@ Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
out-of-tree driver.
Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+----------------------------
+
+What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
+When: 2.6.27
+Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
+Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
+
---------------------------
What: /sys/o2cb symlink
@@ -291,3 +296,11 @@ Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: asm/semaphore.h
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
+ linux/semaphore.h instead.
+Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>