---------------------------
-What: x86 floppy disable_hlt
-When: 2012
-Why: ancient workaround of dubious utility clutters the
- code used by everybody else.
-Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE, and its ability to call APM BIOS in idle
When: 2012
Why: This optional sub-feature of APM is of dubious reliability,
---------------------------
-What: Deprecated snapshot ioctls
-When: 2.6.36
-
-Why: The ioctls in kernel/power/user.c were marked as deprecated long time
- ago. Now they notify users about that so that they need to replace
- their userspace. After some more time, remove them completely.
-
-Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
When: March 2010 / desktop catchup
---------------------------
-What: sys_sysctl
-When: September 2010
-Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
-Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from
- /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
- important performance wise.
-
- Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
- bugs and security issues.
-
- When I looked several months ago all I could find after
- searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
- glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
-
- The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
- space programs.
-
- sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
- space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
-
- For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
- sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
-
- Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
- properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
- 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
- them and end the pain.
-
- In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
- in a piecewise fashion.
-
-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
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
+ 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
---------------------------
-What: CS5535/CS5536 obsolete GPIO driver
-When: June 2011
-Files: drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/*
-Check: drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c
-Why: A newer driver replaces this; it is drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c, and
- integrates with the Linux GPIO subsystem. The old driver has been
- moved to staging, and will be removed altogether around 2.6.40.
- Please test the new driver, and ensure that the functionality you
- need and any bugfixes from the old driver are available in the new
- one.
-Who: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
-
---------------------------
-
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006
Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability
and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
are not provided by Broadcom anymore.
-Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
+Who: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
---------------------------
---------------------------
-What: CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
-When: January 2009
-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.
+When: 3.5
Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
ways (ioctls)
Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
----------------------------
-What: KVM paravirt mmu host support
-When: January 2011
-Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
- on newer and older hardware. It is already not exposed to the guest,
- and kept only for live migration purposes.
-Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: iwlwifi 50XX module parameters
-When: 2.6.40
+When: 3.0
Why: The "..50" modules parameters were used to configure 5000 series and
up devices; different set of module parameters also available for 4965
with same functionalities. Consolidate both set into single place
----------------------------
What: iwl4965 alias support
-When: 2.6.40
+When: 3.0
Why: Internal alias support has been present in module-init-tools for some
time, the MODULE_ALIAS("iwl4965") boilerplate aliases can be removed
with no impact.
----------------------------
-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
+When: 3.0
Why: Hareware scan is the prefer method for iwlwifi devices for
scanning operation. Remove software scan support for all the
iwlwifi devices.
----------------------------
-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>
-
-----------------------------
-
-What: cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]()
-When: 2.6.39
-
-Why: The functions have been superceded by cancel_delayed_work_sync()
- quite some time ago. The conversion is trivial and there is no
- in-kernel user left.
-Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: Legacy, non-standard chassis intrusion detection interface.
When: June 2011
Why: The adm9240, w83792d and w83793 hardware monitoring drivers have
----------------------------
-What: noswapaccount kernel command line parameter
-When: 2.6.40
-Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by
- CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP could be disabled by the noswapaccount
- kernel parameter (introduced in 2.6.29-rc1). Later on, this decision
- turned out to be not ideal because we cannot have the feature compiled
- in and disabled by default and let only interested to enable it
- (e.g. general distribution kernels might need it). Therefore we have
- added swapaccount[=0|1] parameter (introduced in 2.6.37) which provides
- the both possibilities. If we remove noswapaccount we will have
- less command line parameters with the same functionality and we
- can also cleanup the parameter handling a bit ().
-Who: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: ipt_addrtype match include file
When: 2012
Why: superseded by xt_addrtype
----------------------------
-What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_ADD in the uvcvideo driver
-When: 2.6.42
-Why: The information passed to the driver by this ioctl is now queried
- dynamically from the device.
-Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
+What: Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
+ tuner mode from tv to radio.
+When: 3.3
+Why: Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
+ like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
+ switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
+ and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
+Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
----------------------------
-What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP_OLD in the uvcvideo driver
-When: 2.6.42
-Why: Used only by applications compiled against older driver versions.
- Superseded by UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP which supports V4L2 menu controls.
-Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
+What: g_file_storage driver
+When: 3.8
+Why: This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage.
+Who: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
----------------------------
-What: Support for UVCIOC_CTRL_GET and UVCIOC_CTRL_SET in the uvcvideo driver
-When: 2.6.42
-Why: Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
-Who: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
+What: threeg and interface sysfs files in /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi
+When: 2012
+Why: In 3.0, we can now autodetect internal 3G device and already have
+ the threeg rfkill device. So, we plan to remove threeg sysfs support
+ for it's no longer necessary.
-----------------------------
+ We also plan to remove interface sysfs file that exposed which ACPI-WMI
+ interface that was used by acer-wmi driver. It will replaced by
+ information log when acer-wmi initial.
+Who: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
-What: For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type.
- If not, return -EINVAL.
-When: 3.2
-Why: It makes no sense to switch the tuner to radio mode by calling
- VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a video node, or to switch the tuner to tv mode by
- calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a radio node. This is the first step of a
- move to more consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
-Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
+---------------------------
+
+What: /sys/devices/platform/_UDC_/udc/_UDC_/is_dualspeed file and
+ is_dualspeed line in /sys/devices/platform/ci13xxx_*/udc/device file.
+When: 3.8
+Why: The is_dualspeed file is superseded by maximum_speed in the same
+ directory and is_dualspeed line in device file is superseded by
+ max_speed line in the same file.
+
+ The maximum_speed/max_speed specifies maximum speed supported by UDC.
+ To check if dualspeeed is supported, check if the value is >= 3.
+ Various possible speeds are defined in <linux/usb/ch9.h>.
+Who: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
----------------------------
-What: Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
- tuner mode from tv to radio.
+What: The XFS nodelaylog mount option
When: 3.3
-Why: Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
- like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
- switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
- and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
-Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
+Why: The delaylog mode that has been the default since 2.6.39 has proven
+ stable, and the old code is in the way of additional improvements in
+ the log code.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: iwlagn alias support
+When: 3.5
+Why: The iwlagn module has been renamed iwlwifi. The alias will be around
+ for backward compatibility for several cycles and then dropped.
+Who: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: pci_scan_bus_parented()
+When: 3.5
+Why: The pci_scan_bus_parented() interface creates a new root bus. The
+ bus is created with default resources (ioport_resource and
+ iomem_resource) that are always wrong, so we rely on arch code to
+ correct them later. Callers of pci_scan_bus_parented() should
+ convert to using pci_scan_root_bus() so they can supply a list of
+ bus resources when the bus is created.
+Who: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Low Performance USB Block driver ("CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB")
+When: 3.6
+Why: This driver provides support for USB storage devices like "USB
+ sticks". As of now, it is deactivated in Debian, Fedora and
+ Ubuntu. All current users can switch over to usb-storage
+ (CONFIG_USB_STORAGE) which only drawback is the additional SCSI
+ stack.
+Who: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: kmap_atomic(page, km_type)
+When: 3.5
+Why: The old kmap_atomic() with two arguments is deprecated, we only
+ keep it for backward compatibility for few cycles and then drop it.
+Who: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
----------------------------
+
+What: get_robust_list syscall
+When: 2013
+Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall,
+ and it runs the risk of leaking address locations, allowing the bypass
+ of ASLR. It was only ever intended for debugging, so it should be
+ removed.
+Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value)
+When: 3.6
+Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This
+ violates the spec.
+Who: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: V4L2_CID_HCENTER, V4L2_CID_VCENTER V4L2 controls
+When: 3.7
+Why: The V4L2_CID_VCENTER, V4L2_CID_HCENTER controls have been deprecated
+ for about 4 years and they are not used by any mainline driver.
+ There are newer controls (V4L2_CID_PAN*, V4L2_CID_TILT*) that provide
+ similar functionality.
+Who: Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>
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