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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 4dc46547766..d725c0dfe03 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -85,17 +85,6 @@ Who: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> & Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> --------------------------- -What: Deprecated snapshot ioctls -When: 2.6.36 - -Why: The ioctls in kernel/power/user.c were marked as deprecated long time - ago. Now they notify users about that so that they need to replace - their userspace. After some more time, remove them completely. - -Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> - ---------------------------- - What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter When: March 2010 / desktop catchup @@ -133,41 +122,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- -What: sys_sysctl -When: September 2010 -Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL -Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from - /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be - important performance wise. - - Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel - bugs and security issues. - - When I looked several months ago all I could find after - searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and - glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall. - - The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user - space programs. - - sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user - space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel. - - For the last several months the policy has been no new binary - sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them. - - Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so - properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a - 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill - them and end the pain. - - In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with - in a piecewise fashion. - -Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj When: August 2012 Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's @@ -298,8 +252,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) -When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches - for enough time, probably some time in 2010. +When: 3.5 Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other ways (ioctls) Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> @@ -397,15 +350,6 @@ Who: anybody or Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> ---------------------------- -What: KVM paravirt mmu host support -When: January 2011 -Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both - on newer and older hardware. It is already not exposed to the guest, - and kept only for live migration purposes. -Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - What: iwlwifi 50XX module parameters When: 3.0 Why: The "..50" modules parameters were used to configure 5000 series and @@ -495,64 +439,6 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> ---------------------------- -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_ADD in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: The information passed to the driver by this ioctl is now queried - dynamically from the device. -Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP_OLD in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: Used only by applications compiled against older driver versions. - Superseded by UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP which supports V4L2 menu controls. -Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_GET and UVCIOC_CTRL_SET in the uvcvideo driver -When: 3.2 -Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl. -Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Support for driver specific ioctls in the pwc driver (everything - defined in media/pwc-ioctl.h) -When: 3.3 -Why: This stems from the v4l1 era, with v4l2 everything can be done with - standardized v4l2 API calls -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Driver specific sysfs API in the pwc driver -When: 3.3 -Why: Setting pan/tilt should be done with v4l2 controls, like with other - cams. The button is available as a standard input device -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Driver specific use of pixfmt.priv in the pwc driver -When: 3.3 -Why: The .priv field never was intended for this, setting a framerate is - support using the standardized S_PARM ioctl -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: Software emulation of arbritary resolutions in the pwc driver -When: 3.3 -Why: The pwc driver claims to support any resolution between 160x120 - and 640x480, but emulates this by simply drawing a black border - around the image. Userspace can draw its own black border if it - really wants one. -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - What: For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type. If not, return -EINVAL. When: 3.2 @@ -593,10 +479,45 @@ Why: In 3.0, we can now autodetect internal 3G device and already have information log when acer-wmi initial. Who: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com> +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/devices/platform/_UDC_/udc/_UDC_/is_dualspeed file and + is_dualspeed line in /sys/devices/platform/ci13xxx_*/udc/device file. +When: 3.8 +Why: The is_dualspeed file is superseded by maximum_speed in the same + directory and is_dualspeed line in device file is superseded by + max_speed line in the same file. + + The maximum_speed/max_speed specifies maximum speed supported by UDC. + To check if dualspeeed is supported, check if the value is >= 3. + Various possible speeds are defined in <linux/usb/ch9.h>. +Who: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> + ---------------------------- + What: The XFS nodelaylog mount option When: 3.3 Why: The delaylog mode that has been the default since 2.6.39 has proven stable, and the old code is in the way of additional improvements in the log code. Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> + +---------------------------- + +What: iwlagn alias support +When: 3.5 +Why: The iwlagn module has been renamed iwlwifi. The alias will be around + for backward compatibility for several cycles and then dropped. +Who: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: pci_scan_bus_parented() +When: 3.5 +Why: The pci_scan_bus_parented() interface creates a new root bus. The + bus is created with default resources (ioport_resource and + iomem_resource) that are always wrong, so we rely on arch code to + correct them later. Callers of pci_scan_bus_parented() should + convert to using pci_scan_root_bus() so they can supply a list of + bus resources when the bus is created. +Who: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> |