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@@ -50,22 +50,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
---------------------------
-What: ieee1394 core's unused exports (CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API)
-When: January 2007
-Why: There are no projects known to use these exported symbols, except
- dfg1394 (uses one symbol whose functionality is core-internal now).
-Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: ieee1394's *_oui sysfs attributes (CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB)
-When: January 2007
-Files: drivers/ieee1394/: oui.db, oui2c.sh
-Why: big size, little value
-Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006
Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
@@ -186,18 +170,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---------------------------
-What: find_trylock_page
-When: January 2007
-Why: The interface no longer has any callers left in the kernel. It
- is an odd interface (compared with other find_*_page functions), in
- that it does not take a refcount to the page, only the page lock.
- It should be replaced with find_get_page or find_lock_page if possible.
- This feature removal can be reevaluated if users of the interface
- cannot cleanly use something else.
-Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
When: Januar 2007
Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
@@ -274,6 +246,7 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
---------------------------
+<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY)
When: 2.6.21
Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use
@@ -306,11 +279,18 @@ Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for
the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump
and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here:
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils
-
Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---------------------------
+What: ACPI procfs interface
+When: July 2007
+Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated
+ in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed.
+Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: /proc/acpi/button
When: August 2007
Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer
@@ -325,3 +305,10 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years.
Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: sk98lin network driver
+When: July 2007
+Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
+ replaced by the skge driver.
+Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
+