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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5f96cb33743..676b7981adb 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: MXSER +When: December 2007 +Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet + and remove it. +Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> + +--------------------------- + What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP When: October 2007 Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are @@ -51,6 +59,15 @@ 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 + driver can ported over almost trivially. +Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> + Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.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 @@ -117,18 +134,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer -When: March 2007 -Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This - was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were - silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. - Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed - and the timevals are sanitized. - -Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. @@ -156,7 +161,7 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --------------------------- What: Interrupt only SA_* flags -When: Januar 2007 +When: September 2007 Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them out of the signal namespace. @@ -323,3 +328,11 @@ Why: Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- + +What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE +When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 +Why: obsolete OSS drivers +Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> + +--------------------------- + |