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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1b629622d88 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +What: legacy isochronous ABI of raw1394 (1st generation iso ABI) +Date: June 2007 (scheduled), removed in kernel v2.6.23 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + The two request types RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN have + been deprecated for quite some time. They are very inefficient as they + come with high interrupt load and several layers of callbacks for each + packet. Because of these deficiencies, the video1394 and dv1394 drivers + and the 3rd-generation isochronous ABI in raw1394 (rawiso) were created. + +Users: + libraw1394 users via the long deprecated API raw1394_iso_write, + raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv, raw1394_stop_iso_rcv + + libdc1394, which optionally uses these old libraw1394 calls + alternatively to the more efficient video1394 ABI diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7d3f205b0ba..51b369e7fc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN -When: June 2007 -Why: Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface. - Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394 - (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv, - raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394. -Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level |