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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index a5cb7839a67..c175eedadb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -180,24 +180,11 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -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. +When: July 2008 +Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. + ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that + there is enough time for the user space to catch up. Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> --------------------------- |