projects / linux-2.6-block.git / blame
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| 1da177e4 LT |
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 | ||
| 98e7f294 AB |
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 | ||
| 66cf8f14 PM |
28 | What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL |
| 29 | When: April 2006 | |
| 30 | Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c | |
| 31 | Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even | |
| 32 | vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx, | |
| 33 | VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary | |
| 34 | drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two | |
| 35 | are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes. | |
| 36 | So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow | |
| 37 | people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware | |
| 38 | of, to adjust to this upcoming change. | |
| 39 | Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> | |
| a1446c7f JM |
40 | |
| 41 | --------------------------- | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver, | |
| 44 | Connection Management Procedures driver | |
| 45 | When: November 2005 | |
| 46 | Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}* | |
| 47 | Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented | |
| 48 | in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for | |
| 49 | example.) | |
| 50 | Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | --------------------------- | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN | |
| 55 | When: November 2005 | |
| 56 | Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is | |
| 57 | more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394 | |
| 58 | access anyway. | |
| 59 | Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> | |
| 937df8df GC |
60 | |
| 61 | --------------------------- | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid | |
| 64 | When: November 2005 | |
| 65 | Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c | |
| 66 | Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names | |
| 67 | will be available until removal of old names. | |
| 68 | Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> | |
| 69 | ||
| bf45d9b0 DB |
70 | --------------------------- |
| 71 | ||
| dfed0449 AB |
72 | What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout) |
| 73 | When: April 2006 | |
| 74 | Files: kernel/panic.c | |
| 75 | Why: No modular usage in the kernel. | |
| 76 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | --------------------------- | |
| 79 | ||
| 24622efd AB |
80 | What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource) |
| 81 | When: April 2006 | |
| 82 | Files: kernel/resource.c | |
| 83 | Why: No modular usage in the kernel. | |
| 84 | Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | --------------------------- | |
| 87 | ||
| bf45d9b0 DB |
88 | What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) |
| 89 | When: November 2005 | |
| 90 | Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c | |
| 91 | Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a | |
| 92 | normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel | |
| 93 | infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA | |
| 94 | control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is | |
| 95 | unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the | |
| 96 | PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more | |
| 97 | difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either | |
| 98 | handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new | |
| 99 | pcmciautils package available at | |
| 100 | http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ | |
| 101 | Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> | |
| 7af4cc3f HW |
102 | |
| 103 | --------------------------- | |
| 104 | ||
| 105 | What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) | |
| 106 | When: December 2005 | |
| 107 | Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent | |
| 108 | "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old | |
| 109 | ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle | |
| 110 | all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have | |
| 111 | to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue | |
| 112 | instead of the current 'libipq'. | |
| 113 | Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> |