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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-17 02:20:36 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-17 02:20:36 +0400 |
| commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| download | linux-1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2.tar.xz | |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b6b1f5ab5354 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +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. + +--------------------------- + +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> + +--------------------------- + +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> + +--------------------------- + +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> + +--------------------------- + +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> |