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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/removed/dv139414
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/removed/raw139415
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs
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+What: devfs
+Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18
+Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+Description:
+ devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
+ races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
+ against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
+ The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed,
+ along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the
+ kernel tree.
+
+Users:
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394
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+What: dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire)
+Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Description:
+ /dev/dv1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire
+ controller and for NTSC and PAL respectively, from which DV data
+ could be received by read() or transmitted by write(). A few
+ ioctl()s allowed limited control.
+ This special-purpose interface has been superseded by libraw1394 +
+ libiec61883 which are functionally equivalent, support HDV, and
+ transparently work on top of the newer firewire kernel drivers.
+
+Users:
+ ffmpeg/libavformat (if configured for DV1394)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue b/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue
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+What: ip_queue
+Date: finally removed in kernel v3.5.0
+Contact: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
+Description:
+ ip_queue has been replaced by nfnetlink_queue which provides
+ more advanced queueing mechanism to user-space. The ip_queue
+ module was already announced to become obsolete years ago.
+
+Users:
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb
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+What: /sys/o2cb symlink
+Date: May 2011
+KernelVersion: 3.0
+Contact: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink is
+ removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look
+ in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new
+ software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead.
+Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to
+ ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394
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+What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire)
+Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Description:
+ /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level
+ access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability
+ to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level
+ of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much
+ of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality.
+ Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
+ firewire-core.
+
+Users:
+ libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
+ users)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394
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+What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire)
+Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Description:
+ /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire
+ controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an
+ alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had
+ performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had
+ to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide
+ asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration.
+ Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
+ firewire-core.
+
+Users:
+ libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
+ users)