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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 2ea080c958bbd..b6b1f5ab5354b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -17,21 +17,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> --------------------------- -What: /proc/sys/cpu/*, sysctl and /proc/cpufreq interfaces to cpufreq (2.4.x interfaces) -When: January 2005 -Files: drivers/cpufreq/: cpufreq_userspace.c, proc_intf.c -Why: /proc/sys/cpu/* has been deprecated since inclusion of cpufreq into - the main kernel tree. It bloats /proc/ unnecessarily and doesn't work - well with the "governor"-based design of cpufreq. - /proc/cpufreq/* has also been deprecated for a long time and was only - meant for usage during 2.5. until the new sysfs-based interface became - ready. It has an inconsistent interface which doesn't work well with - userspace setting the frequency. The output from /proc/cpufreq/* can - be emulated using "cpufreq-info --proc" (cpufrequtils). - Both interfaces are superseded by the cpufreq interface in - /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%n/cpufreq/. -Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> - What: ACPI S4bios support When: May 2005 Why: Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is @@ -40,6 +25,15 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> --------------------------- +What: PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES) +When: July 2005 +Why: It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better + (pciutils supports it.) Will eliminate the need to try to keep the + pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> + +--------------------------- + What: io_remap_page_range() (macro or function) When: September 2005 Why: Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space |