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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1d227ee3792..8b1430b4665 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> --------------------------- What: register_serial/unregister_serial -When: December 2005 +When: September 2005 Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port - and serial8250_unregister_port instead. + and serial8250_unregister_port, or platform devices instead. Who: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> --------------------------- @@ -119,3 +119,19 @@ Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names will be available until removal of old names. Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> +--------------------------- + +What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) +When: November 2005 +Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c +Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a + normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel + infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA + control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is + unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the + PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more + difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either + handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new + pcmciautils package available at + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ +Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> |