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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 30f3c8c9c12..b3d1ce7e3ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -226,6 +226,23 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- +What: i2c_adapter.dev + i2c_adapter.list +When: July 2007 +Why: Superfluous, given i2c_adapter.class_dev: + * The "dev" was a stand-in for the physical device node that legacy + drivers would not have; but now it's almost always present. Any + remaining legacy drivers must upgrade (they now trigger warnings). + * The "list" duplicates class device children. + The delay in removing this is so upgraded lm_sensors and libsensors + can get deployed. (Removal causes minor changes in the sysfs layout, + notably the location of the adapter type name and parenting the i2c + client hardware directly from their controller.) +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, + David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> + +--------------------------- + What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers When: 2.6.22 Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old @@ -256,3 +273,63 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- + +<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use + ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented + in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented + vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than + the same. + + Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform + are different, so there will always be a need for + platform-specific drivers. + + So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the + platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same + to the user when they supply the same features. + + hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL + +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace +When: 2.6.21 +Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for + the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary + and have no place being exposed to user-space. + + For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, + the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump + and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: + http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: ACPI procfs interface +When: July 2007 +Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated + in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. +Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: /proc/acpi/button +When: August 2007 +Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer + since 2.6.20. +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: JFFS (version 1) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. +Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> + +--------------------------- |