Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txtup to date?

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 15:46:14 EST


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> as time goes by, the informational value of the feature removal file
> is rapidly approaching zero, as alleged deadlines for removal are
> continually dismissed, while some removal dates as far back as 2005
> are still in that file.
>
> if those features aren't going to be removed, then will someone at
> least recalibrate their removal dates and update that file?

I'm adding Ccs of a few people, as LKML is a high volume list.
Overdue items are:

What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006

What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005

What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006

What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
When: June 2006

What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007

What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
(temporary transition config option provided until then)
When: before 2.6.19

What: i2c-isa
When: December 2006

What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS [sic]
When: options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24

Note 1: This entry is superseded by
What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE
When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25

Note 2: Current linux-2.6.22-git* has SOUND_BT878 and
SOUND_CS4232 depending on OSS_OBSOLETE.

What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
When: 2.6.21
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Stefan Richter
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