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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 4d3aa519eadf..c1d1fd0c299b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- +What: ide-tape driver +When: July 2008 +Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c +Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no + reason is an effort no one wants to make. +Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov + <petkovbb@googlemail.com> + +--------------------------- + What: libata spindown skipping and warning When: Dec 2008 Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin @@ -306,3 +316,15 @@ Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code. Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> + +--------------------------- + +What: init_mm export +When: 2.6.26 +Why: Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to + work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved + by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code + of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such + code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some + out-of-tree driver. +Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |