| 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. |
| |
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| |
| 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> |
| |
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| |
| 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> |
| |
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| |
| 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> |
| |
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| |
| 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> |
| |
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| |
| 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> |
| |
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| |
| 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> |