diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 698e1e8b304..fdb79994e79 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: PRISM54 +When: 2.6.34 + +Why: prism54 FullMAC PCI / Cardbus devices used to be supported only by the + prism54 wireless driver. After Intersil stopped selling these + devices in preference for the newer more flexible SoftMAC devices + a SoftMAC device driver was required and prism54 did not support + them. The p54pci driver now exists and has been present in the kernel for + a while. This driver supports both SoftMAC devices and FullMAC devices. + The main difference between these devices was the amount of memory which + could be used for the firmware. The SoftMAC devices support a smaller + amount of memory. Because of this the SoftMAC firmware fits into FullMAC + devices's memory. p54pci supports not only PCI / Cardbus but also USB + and SPI. Since p54pci supports all devices prism54 supports + you will have a conflict. I'm not quite sure how distributions are + handling this conflict right now. prism54 was kept around due to + claims users may experience issues when using the SoftMAC driver. + Time has passed users have not reported issues. If you use prism54 + and for whatever reason you cannot use p54pci please let us know! + E-mail us at: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org + + For more information see the p54 wiki page: + + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54 + +Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> + +--------------------------- + What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM When: July 2009 @@ -433,3 +462,13 @@ Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be + exported interface anymore. +When: 2.6.33 +Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to + cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent + drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues. +Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> |