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2006-06-28[PATCH] Add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPLArjan van de Ven
Temporarily add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL. These will be used as a transition measure for symbols that aren't used in the kernel and are on the way out. When a module uses such a symbol, a warning is printk'd at modprobe time. The main reason for removing unused exports is size: eacho export takes roughly between 100 and 150 bytes of kernel space in the binary. This patch gives users the option to immediately get this size gain via a config option. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modulesPaul E. McKenney
Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/linux1394-2.6: (28 commits) eth1394: replace __constant_htons by htons ieee1394: adjust code formatting in highlevel.c ieee1394: hl_irqs_lock is taken in hardware interrupt context ieee1394_core: switch to kthread API ieee1394: sbp2: Kconfig fix ieee1394: add preprocessor constant for invalid csr address sbp2: fix deregistration of status fifo address space [PATCH] eth1394: endian fixes Fix broken suspend/resume in ohci1394 sbp2: use __attribute__((packed)) for on-the-wire structures sbp2: provide helptext for CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA and mark it experimental Update feature removal of obsolete raw1394 ISO requests. sbp2: fix S800 transfers if phys_dma is off sbp2: remove ohci1394 specific constant ohci1394: make phys_dma parameter read-only ohci1394: set address range properties ieee1394: extend lowlevel API for address range properties sbp2: log number of supported concurrent logins sbp2: remove manipulation of inquiry response ieee1394: save RAM by using a single tlabel for broadcast transactions ...
2006-06-19[MIPS] Remove support for NEC DDB5476.Ralf Baechle
As warned several times before. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-06-19[MIPS] Remove support for NEC DDB5074.Ralf Baechle
As warned several times before. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-06-12Update feature removal of obsolete raw1394 ISO requests.Ben Collins
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
2006-05-17[PATCH] sbp2: consolidate workaroundsStefan Richter
Grand unification of the three types of workarounds we have so far. The "skip mode page 8" workaround is now limited to devices which pretend to be of TYPE_DISK instead of TYPE_RBC. This workaround is no longer enabled for Initio bridges. Patch update in anticipation of more workarounds: - Add module parameter "workarounds". - Deprecate parameter "force_inquiry_hack". - Compose the blacklist of a compound type for better readability and extensibility. - Remove a now unused #define. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-20[PATCH] update OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER schedule and dependenciesAdrian Bunk
Update the schedule for the removal of drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER as follows: - adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencie - from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17: approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA drivers for the same hardware - after the release of 2.6.17 (and before 2.6.18): remove the subset of drivers marked at OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER without known regressions in the ALSA drivers for the same hardware Additionally, correct some OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencies. A rationale of the changes is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/28/135 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] the scheduled unexport of panic_timeoutAdrian Bunk
Implement the scheduled unexport of panic_timeout. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] fs/namei.c: make lookup_hash() staticAdrian Bunk
As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] mm: schedule find_trylock_page() removalNick Piggin
find_trylock_page() is an odd interface in that it doesn't take a reference like the others. Now that XFS no longer uses it, and its last remaining caller actually wants an elevated refcount, opencode that callsite and schedule find_trylock_page() for removal. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Validate and sanitze itimer timeval from userspaceThomas Gleixner
According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form. This check was never done in Linux. The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout. hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form. Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16. To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did. Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected. After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a correct validation check. This is also documented in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers (sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock exportChristoph Hellwig
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread exportChristoph Hellwig
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year, after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan to do over the next month. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] PCI: the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROCAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to USB subsystemGreg Kroah-Hartman
The USB core symbols will be converted to GPL-only in a few years. Mark this as such and update the documentation explaining why, and provide a pointer for developers to receive help if they need it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-11Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik
2006-03-09[MIPS] Threaten removal of code for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.Ralf Baechle
What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-23Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik
2006-02-22Revert mount/umount uevent removalGreg Kroah-Hartman
This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel. Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted, and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to properly detect this kind of event. A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this interface will be removed from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-09Merge branch 'viro'Jeff Garzik
2006-02-07Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2006-02-07[netdrvr] schedule eepro100 for removalBunk
2006-02-06[PATCH] hwmon: Fix reboot on it87 driver loadJean Delvare
Only scan I2C address 0x2d. This is the default address and no IT87xxF chip was ever seen on I2C at a different address. These chips are better accessed through their ISA interface anyway. This fixes bug #5889, although it doesn't address the whole class of problems. We'd need the ability to blacklist arbitrary I2C addresses on systems known to contain I2C devices which behave badly when probed. Plan the I2C interface for removal as well. If nobody complains within a year, it will confirm my impression that the I2C interface isn't actually needed by anyone. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] pci: Schedule removal of pci_module_initRichard Knutsson
Scheduled the removal of pci_module_init. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31[PATCH] PCI: schedule PCI_LEGACY_PROC for removalAdrian Bunk
PCI_LEGACY_PROC is deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-14[PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inliningIngo Molnar
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc to inline all the time. This requires several places that require to be inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06Merge ../torvalds-2.6/Greg Kroah-Hartman
2006-01-05[PATCH] hwmon: remove deprecated sysfs names of adm1025 and adm1026Grant Coady
drivers, hwmon, adm1025 and adm1026: remove deprecated sysfs names. these names have been listed for removal for six months, time for them to go Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-18Merge with http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitJody McIntyre
2005-11-18Remove amdtp, cmp drivers.Jody McIntyre
Remove the Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver and the Connection Management Procedures driver. These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for example.) Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-11-17[MIPS] feature-removal-schedule.txt: Schedule au1x00_uart for removal.Ralf Baechle
The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an issue. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-11-15[PATCH] md: mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a dateNeilBrown
This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days. But now it seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date now. So set a date. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] V4L: removal schedule for V4L1 APIMauro Carvalho Chehab
States a date for removing V4L1 API Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] sanitize lookup_hash prototypeChristoph Hellwig
->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to pass down lookup intents. Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't actually pass this one down. For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation. All other callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it. All callers already have the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem. At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage. Before it can actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removalAdrian Bunk
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: panic_timeoutAdrian Bunk
This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using. Give panic_timeout the twelve-month treatment. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: insert_resourceAdrian Bunk
This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using. Give insert_resource the twelve-month treatment. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()Randy Dunlap
As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the io_remap_page_range() kernel API. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios supportPavel Machek
Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_ once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal for a long time, and it should have been removed before. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-08[PATCH] PCI: remove CONFIG_PCI_NAMESAdrian Bunk
This patch removes CONFIG_PCI_NAMES. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in ↵Jesper Juhl
Documentation/ Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove register_ioctl32_conversion and unregister_ioctl32_conversionAdrian Bunk
All users have been converted. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-03[SERIAL] feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove {,un}register_serial entryAdrian Bunk
If the feature is removed, there's no need to keep the entry in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlinkHarald Welte
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module - Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535 - Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE - Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-16[PATCH] Serial: Move deprecation of register_serial forward to SeptemberRussell King
I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the expiry of these functions. Due to recent discussions with problems in the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the date forward to September. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-07[PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctlDominik Brodowski
Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005. A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in Linux. Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removalAdrian Bunk
Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was obsolete. (trolling for IBMers) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Add removal schedule of register_serial/unregister_serial to ↵Russell King
appropriate file
2005-06-23[PATCH] add note about verify_area removal to feature-removal-schedule.txtJesper Juhl
Add note about the soon-to-come removal of verify_area() to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>