| The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
| removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what |
| exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing |
| the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also |
| be removed from this file. |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: devfs |
| When: July 2005 |
| Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs |
| function calls throughout the kernel tree |
| Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable |
| races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is |
| against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. |
| Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: ACPI S4bios support |
| When: May 2005 |
| Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is |
| faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it. |
| Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) |
| When: July 2005 |
| Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better |
| (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the |
| pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. |
| Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) |
| When: September 2005 |
| Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space |
| addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64 |
| iospace as part of the pfn. |
| Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) |
| When: December 2005 |
| Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 |
| O_DIRECT can be used instead |
| Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() |
| When: April 2005 |
| Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method |
| vecors. |
| Who: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL |
| When: April 2006 |
| Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c |
| Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even |
| vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, |
| VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary |
| drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two |
| are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. |
| So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow |
| people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware |
| of, to adjust to this upcoming change. |
| Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: remove verify_area() |
| When: July 2006 |
| Files: Various uaccess.h headers. |
| Why: Deprecated and redundant. access_ok() should be used instead. |
| Who: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, |
| Connection Management Procedures driver |
| When: November 2005 |
| Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}* |
| Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented |
| in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for |
| example.) |
| Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN |
| When: November 2005 |
| Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is |
| more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394 |
| access anyway. |
| Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: register_serial/unregister_serial |
| 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, or platform devices instead. |
| Who: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> |
| |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid |
| When: November 2005 |
| Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c |
| 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> |
