---------------------------
-What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
-When: January 2006
+What: drivers that were depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
+ (config options already removed)
+When: before 2.6.19
Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
---------------------------
-What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: April 2006
-Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
-Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
- vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
- VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
- drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
- are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
- So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
- people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
- of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
-Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When: November 2005
+When: November 2006
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
more efficient. You should really be using libraw1394 for raw1394
access anyway.
-Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
+Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: sbp2: module parameter "force_inquiry_hack"
+When: July 2006
+Why: Superceded by parameter "workarounds". Both parameters are meant to be
+ used ad-hoc and for single devices only, i.e. not in modprobe.conf,
+ therefore the impact of this feature replacement should be low.
+Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
-When: April 2006
-Files: kernel/panic.c
-Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
When: April 2006
Files: kernel/resource.c
---------------------------
-What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
-When: January 2006
-Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
+When: August 2006
+Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
+Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should
+ use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
+ implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
+ prevents bugs and code duplication
Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC)
-When: March 2006
-Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8)
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: pci_module_init(driver)
When: January 2007
Why: Is replaced by pci_register_driver(pci_driver).
---------------------------
+What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer
+When: March 2007
+Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This
+ was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were
+ silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals.
+ Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed
+ and the timevals are sanitized.
+
+Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: I2C interface of the it87 driver
When: January 2007
Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
---------------------------
+What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
+ (temporary transition config option provided until then)
+ The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
+When: before 2.6.19
+Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary
+ and are often a sign of "wrong API"
+Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock)
+When: August 2006
+Files: kernel/fork.c
+Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have
+ no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due
+ to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents
+ moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: mount/umount uevents
When: February 2007
Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
---------------------------
-What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
-When: June 2006
-Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no
- users have complained indicating there is no more need for these
- boards. This should really be considered a last call.
-Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
When: Febuary 2008
Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
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>
+
+---------------------------
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