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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> | |
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18 | --------------------------- | |
19 | ||
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20 | What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) |
21 | When: December 2005 | |
22 | Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 | |
23 | O_DIRECT can be used instead | |
24 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
25 | ||
26 | --------------------------- | |
27 | ||
cecd1ca0 AB |
28 | What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER |
29 | When: January 2006 | |
30 | Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements | |
31 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
32 | ||
33 | --------------------------- | |
34 | ||
66cf8f14 PM |
35 | What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL |
36 | When: April 2006 | |
37 | Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c | |
38 | Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even | |
39 | vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, | |
40 | VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary | |
41 | drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two | |
42 | are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. | |
43 | So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow | |
44 | people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware | |
45 | of, to adjust to this upcoming change. | |
46 | Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | |
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47 | |
48 | --------------------------- | |
49 | ||
50 | What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, | |
51 | Connection Management Procedures driver | |
52 | When: November 2005 | |
53 | Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}* | |
54 | Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented | |
55 | in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for | |
56 | example.) | |
57 | Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> | |
58 | ||
59 | --------------------------- | |
60 | ||
61 | What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN | |
62 | When: November 2005 | |
63 | Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is | |
64 | more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394 | |
65 | access anyway. | |
66 | Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> | |
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67 | |
68 | --------------------------- | |
69 | ||
875c296b MCC |
70 | What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. |
71 | When: July 2006 | |
72 | Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 | |
73 | series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough | |
74 | means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is | |
75 | already available on the main drivers and should be used instead. | |
76 | Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle | |
77 | old calls, replacing to newer ones. | |
78 | Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to | |
79 | communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow | |
80 | V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls. | |
81 | Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> | |
82 | ||
83 | --------------------------- | |
84 | ||
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85 | What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid |
86 | When: November 2005 | |
87 | Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c | |
88 | Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names | |
89 | will be available until removal of old names. | |
90 | Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> | |
91 | ||
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92 | --------------------------- |
93 | ||
dfed0449 AB |
94 | What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout) |
95 | When: April 2006 | |
96 | Files: kernel/panic.c | |
97 | Why: No modular usage in the kernel. | |
98 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
99 | ||
100 | --------------------------- | |
101 | ||
24622efd AB |
102 | What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource) |
103 | When: April 2006 | |
104 | Files: kernel/resource.c | |
105 | Why: No modular usage in the kernel. | |
106 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
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108 | --------------------------- | |
109 | ||
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110 | What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) |
111 | When: November 2005 | |
112 | Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c | |
113 | Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a | |
114 | normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel | |
115 | infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA | |
116 | control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is | |
117 | unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the | |
118 | PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more | |
119 | difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either | |
120 | handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new | |
121 | pcmciautils package available at | |
122 | http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ | |
123 | Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> | |
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124 | |
125 | --------------------------- | |
126 | ||
127 | What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) | |
128 | When: December 2005 | |
129 | Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent | |
130 | "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old | |
131 | ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle | |
132 | all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have | |
133 | to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue | |
134 | instead of the current 'libipq'. | |
135 | Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> | |
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136 | |
137 | --------------------------- | |
138 | ||
139 | What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash) | |
140 | When: January 2006 | |
141 | Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead. | |
142 | Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |