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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 56000b33340b..afaff312bf41 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ Who: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> --------------------------- +What: /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads +When: 2012 +Why: Since pdflush is deprecated, the interface exported in /proc/sys/vm/ + should be removed. +Who: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + +--------------------------- + What: CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE, and its ability to call APM BIOS in idle When: 2012 Why: This optional sub-feature of APM is of dubious reliability, @@ -70,20 +78,6 @@ Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> --------------------------- -What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM -Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM -When: July 2009 - -Why: Many of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as entropy - sources in the kernel's current entropy model. To resolve this, every - input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better document the - type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced with - additional add_*_randomness functions in drivers/char/random.c - -Who: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> & Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> - ---------------------------- - What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter When: March 2010 / desktop catchup @@ -249,15 +243,6 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> --------------------------- -What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS - (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) -When: 3.5 -Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other - ways (ioctls) -Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - ---------------------------- - What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters When: September 2009 Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and @@ -414,21 +399,6 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> ---------------------------- -What: xt_connlimit rev 0 -When: 2012 -Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> -Files: net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c - ----------------------------- - -What: ipt_addrtype match include file -When: 2012 -Why: superseded by xt_addrtype -Who: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> -Files: include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_addrtype.h - ----------------------------- - What: i2c_driver.attach_adapter i2c_driver.detach_adapter When: September 2011 @@ -449,6 +419,19 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> ---------------------------- +What: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT +When: as soon as distributions ship new wireless tools, ie. wpa_supplicant 1.0 + and NetworkManager/connman/etc. that are able to use nl80211 +Why: Wireless extensions are deprecated, and userland tools are moving to + using nl80211. New drivers are no longer using wireless extensions, + and while there might still be old drivers, both new drivers and new + userland no longer needs them and they can't be used for an feature + developed in the past couple of years. As such, compatibility with + wireless extensions in new drivers will be removed. +Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> + +---------------------------- + What: g_file_storage driver When: 3.8 Why: This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage. @@ -523,14 +506,6 @@ Who: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> ---------------------------- -What: kmap_atomic(page, km_type) -When: 3.5 -Why: The old kmap_atomic() with two arguments is deprecated, we only - keep it for backward compatibility for few cycles and then drop it. -Who: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - What: get_robust_list syscall When: 2013 Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall, @@ -589,6 +564,13 @@ Why: Remount currently allows changing bound subsystems and ---------------------------- +What: xt_recent rev 0 +When: 2013 +Who: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> +Files: net/netfilter/xt_recent.c + +---------------------------- + What: KVM debugfs statistics When: 2013 Why: KVM tracepoints provide mostly equivalent information in a much more @@ -612,3 +594,46 @@ When: June 2013 Why: Unsupported/unmaintained/unused since 2.6 ---------------------------- + +What: V4L2 selections API target rectangle and flags unification, the + following definitions will be removed: V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_ACTIVE, + V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_ACTIVE, V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_*, V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_* + in favor of common V4L2_SEL_TGT_* and V4L2_SEL_FLAG_* definitions. + For more details see include/linux/v4l2-common.h. +When: 3.8 +Why: The regular V4L2 selections and the subdev selection API originally + defined distinct names for the target rectangles and flags - V4L2_SEL_* + and V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_*. Although, it turned out that the meaning of these + target rectangles is virtually identical and the APIs were consolidated + to use single set of names - V4L2_SEL_*. This didn't involve any ABI + changes. Alias definitions were created for the original ones to avoid + any instabilities in the user space interface. After few cycles these + backward compatibility definitions will be removed. +Who: Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: Using V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE and V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_OUTPUT flags + to indicate a V4L2 memory-to-memory device capability +When: 3.8 +Why: New drivers should use new V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M capability flag + to indicate a V4L2 video memory-to-memory (M2M) device and + applications can now identify a M2M video device by checking + for V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M, with VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ioctl. Using ORed + V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE and V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_OUTPUT flags for M2M + devices is ambiguous and may lead, for example, to identifying + a M2M device as a video capture or output device. +Who: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: OMAP private DMA implementation +When: 2013 +Why: We have a DMA engine implementation; all users should be updated + to use this rather than persisting with the old APIs. The old APIs + block merging the old DMA engine implementation into the DMA + engine driver. +Who: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, + Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> + +---------------------------- |