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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 552507fe9a7e..436697cb9388 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: /sys/devices/.../power/state + dev->power.power_state + dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)() +When: July 2007 +Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing + driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support + system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish + different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy + inputs. This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to + use it were broken. Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific + interfaces either to kernel or to userspace. +Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> + +--------------------------- + What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) When: December 2005 Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 @@ -55,6 +70,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> --------------------------- +What: sys_sysctl +When: January 2007 +Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the + interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be + any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional + maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets + in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. + +Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> + +--------------------------- + What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c @@ -202,14 +229,6 @@ Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> --------------------------- -What: Support for the MIPS EV96100 evaluation board -When: September 2006 -Why: Does no longer build since at least November 15, 2003, apparently - no userbase left. -Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> - ---------------------------- - What: Support for the Momentum / PMC-Sierra Jaguar ATX evaluation board When: September 2006 Why: Does no longer build since quite some time, and was never popular, @@ -294,3 +313,24 @@ Why: The frame diverter is included in most distribution kernels, but is It is not clear if anyone is still using it. Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> +--------------------------- + + +What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment +When: Oktober 2008 +Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and + inconsistent. + Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus + devices have SUBSYTEM and DRIVER as a replacement. +Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: i2c-isa +When: December 2006 +Why: i2c-isa is a non-sense and doesn't fit in the device driver + model. Drivers relying on it are better implemented as platform + drivers. +Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- |