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1 | The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
2 | removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what | |
3 | exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing | |
4 | the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also | |
5 | be removed from this file. | |
6 | ||
7 | --------------------------- | |
8 | ||
9 | What: devfs | |
10 | When: July 2005 | |
11 | Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs | |
12 | function calls throughout the kernel tree | |
13 | Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable | |
14 | races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is | |
15 | against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. | |
16 | Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> | |
17 | ||
18 | --------------------------- | |
19 | ||
20 | What: ACPI S4bios support | |
21 | When: May 2005 | |
22 | Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is | |
23 | faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it. | |
24 | Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> | |
25 | ||
26 | --------------------------- | |
27 | ||
28 | What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) | |
29 | When: July 2005 | |
30 | Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better | |
31 | (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the | |
32 | pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. | |
33 | Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |
34 | ||
35 | --------------------------- | |
36 | ||
37 | What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) | |
38 | When: September 2005 | |
39 | Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space | |
40 | addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64 | |
41 | iospace as part of the pfn. | |
42 | Who: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> | |
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43 | |
44 | --------------------------- | |
45 | ||
46 | What: register_ioctl32_conversion() / unregister_ioctl32_conversion() | |
47 | When: April 2005 | |
48 | Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method | |
49 | vecors. | |
50 | Who: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |