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@@ -47,6 +47,30 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
---------------------------
+What: old tuner-3036 i2c driver
+When: 2.6.28
+Why: This driver is for VERY old i2c-over-parallel port teletext receiver
+ boxes. Rather then spending effort on converting this driver to V4L2,
+ and since it is extremely unlikely that anyone still uses one of these
+ devices, it was decided to drop it.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+ ---------------------------
+
+What: V4L2 dpc7146 driver
+When: 2.6.28
+Why: Old driver for the dpc7146 demonstration board that is no longer
+ relevant. The last time this was tested on actual hardware was
+ probably around 2002. Since this is a driver for a demonstration
+ board the decision was made to remove it rather than spending a
+ lot of effort continually updating this driver to stay in sync
+ with the latest internal V4L2 or I2C API.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
+ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
@@ -138,24 +162,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
---------------------------
-What: find_task_by_pid
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the
- wrong task when called from inside a namespace.
-
- The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this
- pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get
- it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later.
-
- If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then
- he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the
- task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but
- this may be not so in general.
-
-Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
@@ -300,11 +306,15 @@ Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
---------------------------
-What: asm/semaphore.h
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: Implementation became generic; users should now include
- linux/semaphore.h instead.
-Who: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
+What: SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD,
+ SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD
+When: June 2009
+Why: A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that
+ removes the limitions of the old API. The sctp library has been
+ converted to use these new options at the same time. Any user
+ space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using
+ the new options.
+Who: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
---------------------------
@@ -314,3 +324,23 @@ Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
Who: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
+ (in net/core/net-sysfs.c)
+When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches
+ for enough time, probably some time in 2010.
+Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
+ ways (ioctls)
+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>
+