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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1571c0c83db..d8f36f984fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing 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> +Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices. -When: July 2009 +When: kernel 2.6.38 Files: include/linux/videodev.h Check: include/linux/videodev.h Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 @@ -116,26 +116,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- -What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) -When: 2.6.35/2.6.36 -Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c -Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a - normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel - infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA - control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is - unnecessary and potentially harmful (it does not provide for - proper locking), and makes further cleanups and integration of the - PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more - difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either - handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new - pcmciautils package available at - http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ - - For all architectures except ARM, the associated config symbol - has been removed from kernel 2.6.34; for ARM, it will be likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.35. The actual code will then likely - be removed from kernel 2.6.36. -Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> +What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API +When: kernel 2.6.38 +Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* drivers/staging/stradis/* +Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c +Why: There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done + to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer + didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer + could find any hardware to buy. They probably have no practical usage today, + and people with such old hardware could probably keep using an older version + of the kernel. Those drivers will be moved to staging on 2.6.37 and, if nobody + care enough to port and test them with V4L2 API, they'll be removed on 2.6.38. +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- @@ -174,6 +166,31 @@ Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> --------------------------- +What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj +When: August 2012 +Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's + badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel + is out of memory. + + The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of + this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated. The value was + implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness() + function that did not have any precise units of measure. With the + rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the + task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score + exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity. + + A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was + introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or + decrease the badness() score linearly. This interface will replace + /proc/<pid>/oom_adj. + + A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this + deprecated interface. After it is printed once, future warnings will be + suppressed until the kernel is rebooted. + +--------------------------- + What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c @@ -303,15 +320,6 @@ Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> --------------------------- -What: CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT -When: 2.6.29 -Why: Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation. - Currently used only to set a default value for a feature that is also - controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter. -Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> - ---------------------------- - What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters When: September 2009 Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and @@ -367,24 +375,6 @@ When: 2.6.33 Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> ---------------------------- - -What: CONFIG_INOTIFY -When: 2.6.33 -Why: last user (audit) will be converted to the newer more generic - and more easily maintained fsnotify subsystem -Who: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be - exported interface anymore. -When: 2.6.33 -Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to - cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent - drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues. -Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> - ---------------------------- What: sound-slot/service-* module aliases and related clutters in @@ -411,34 +401,6 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> ---------------------------- -What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be - dropped. -When: 2.6.37 or earlier. -Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies - from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these - techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. - These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the - performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware - expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of - years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this - feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the - Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if - technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) - arise. - - Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels - still work fine on VMware's platform. - Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, - Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence - releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. - - For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, - http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html - -Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> - ----------------------------- - What: Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver When: March 2010 Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the @@ -459,57 +421,6 @@ Who: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com> ---------------------------- -What: usbvideo quickcam_messenger driver -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/usbvideo/quickcam_messenger.[ch] -Why: obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_stv06xx -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: ov511 v4l1 driver -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/ov511.[ch] -Why: obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_ov519 -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: w9968cf v4l1 driver -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/w9968cf*.[ch] -Why: obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_ov519 -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: ovcamchip sensor framework -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/ovcamchip/* -Why: Only used by obsoleted v4l1 drivers -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: stv680 v4l1 driver -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/stv680.[ch] -Why: obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_stv0680 -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: zc0301 v4l driver -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/zc0301/* -Why: Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only - supports 2 USB-ID's (because it only supports a limited set of - sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver - (which supports 53 USB-ID's in total) -Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - What: sysfs-class-rfkill state file When: Feb 2014 Files: net/rfkill/core.c @@ -538,37 +449,6 @@ Who: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> ---------------------------- -What: KVM memory aliases support -When: July 2010 -Why: Memory aliasing support is used for speeding up guest vga access - through the vga windows. - - Modern userspace no longer uses this feature, so it's just bitrotted - code and can be removed with no impact. -Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: xtime, wall_to_monotonic -When: 2.6.36+ -Files: kernel/time/timekeeping.c include/linux/time.h -Why: Cleaning up timekeeping internal values. Please use - existing timekeeping accessor functions to access - the equivalent functionality. -Who: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> - ----------------------------- - -What: KVM kernel-allocated memory slots -When: July 2010 -Why: Since 2.6.25, kvm supports user-allocated memory slots, which are - much more flexible than kernel-allocated slots. All current userspace - supports the newer interface and this code can be removed with no - impact. -Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> - ----------------------------- - What: KVM paravirt mmu host support When: January 2011 Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both @@ -605,29 +485,6 @@ When: April 2011 Why: Superseded by xt_CT Who: Netfilter developer team <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org> ---------------------------- - -What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c - include/linux/videotext.h -Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes - for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support. - Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249 - has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware - that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically - supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked. - - In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there - are no applications actually implementing this API. - - The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really - like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely - event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality - provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build - around the sliced VBI API instead. -Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> - ---------------------------- What: IRQF_DISABLED @@ -637,16 +494,6 @@ Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> ---------------------------- -What: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394) -When: 2.6.37 -Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c -Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more - features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller - and more modern code base -Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ----------------------------- - What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option When: 2.6.37 Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c @@ -654,3 +501,56 @@ Why: superseded by acpi_sleep=nonvs Who: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> ---------------------------- + +What: PCI DMA unmap state API +When: August 2012 +Why: PCI DMA unmap state API (include/linux/pci-dma.h) was replaced + with DMA unmap state API (DMA unmap state API can be used for + any bus). +Who: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> + +---------------------------- + +What: DMA_xxBIT_MASK macros +When: Jun 2011 +Why: DMA_xxBIT_MASK macros were replaced with DMA_BIT_MASK() macros. +Who: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> + +---------------------------- + +What: namespace cgroup (ns_cgroup) +When: 2.6.38 +Why: The ns_cgroup leads to some problems: + * cgroup creation is out-of-control + * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping + * it is not possible to have a single process handling + a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time + * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup + + The ns_cgroup is replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', + where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. + The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to + the 'tasks' file. +Who: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> + +---------------------------- + +What: iwlwifi disable_hw_scan module parameters +When: 2.6.40 +Why: Hareware scan is the prefer method for iwlwifi devices for + scanning operation. Remove software scan support for all the + iwlwifi devices. + +Who: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: access to nfsd auth cache through sys_nfsservctl or '.' files + in the 'nfsd' filesystem. +When: 2.6.40 +Why: This is a legacy interface which have been replaced by a more + dynamic cache. Continuing to maintain this interface is an + unnecessary burden. +Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> + +---------------------------- |