---------------------------
+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,
+ and ancient APM laptops are likely better served by calling HLT.
+ Deleting CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE allows x86 to stop exporting
+ the pm_idle function pointer to modules.
+Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: x86_32 "no-hlt" cmdline param
+When: 2012
+Why: remove a branch from idle path, simplify code used by everybody.
+ This option disabled the use of HLT in idle and machine_halt()
+ for hardware that was flakey 15-years ago. Today we have
+ "idle=poll" that removed HLT from idle, and so if such a machine
+ is still running the upstream kernel, "idle=poll" is likely sufficient.
+Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: x86 "idle=mwait" cmdline param
+When: 2012
+Why: simplify x86 idle code
+Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
What: PRISM54
When: 2.6.34
---------------------------
-What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices.
-When: July 2009
-Files: include/linux/videodev.h
-Check: include/linux/videodev.h
-Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
- series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
- means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
- already available on the main drivers and should be used instead.
- Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle
- old calls, replacing to newer ones.
- Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to
- communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow
- V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls.
- Compatibility ioctls will be provided, for a while, via
- v4l1-compat module.
-Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-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: /proc/acpi/button
-When: August 2007
-Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer
- since 2.6.20.
-Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
+What: CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
+When: 2.6.39
+Why: sysfs I/F for ACPI power devices, including AC and Battery,
+ has been working in upstream kernel since 2.6.24, Sep 2007.
+ In 2.6.37, we make the sysfs I/F always built in and this option
+ disabled by default.
+ Remove this option and the ACPI power procfs interface in 2.6.39.
+Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
---------------------------
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>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: /sys/o2cb symlink
-When: January 2010
-Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
- exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of
- ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
- which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
-Who: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
+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
-----------------------------
-What: __do_IRQ all in one fits nothing interrupt handler
-When: 2.6.32
-Why: __do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers.
- More than two years of migration time is enough.
-Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-
------------------------------
-
What: fakephp and associated sysfs files in /sys/bus/pci/slots/
When: 2011
Why: In 2.6.27, the semantics of /sys/bus/pci/slots was redefined to
----------------------------
-What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be
- dropped.
-When: 2.6.37 or earlier.
-Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
- from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
- techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
- These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
- performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
- expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
- years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
- feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the
- Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if
- technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops)
- arise.
-
- Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
- still work fine on VMware's platform.
- Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
- Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
- releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
-
- For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
- http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
-
-Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
-
-----------------------------
-
-What: Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver
-When: March 2010
-Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the
- only features that really need multiple path to guess what's
- the right method name on a specific laptop.
-
- Removing them will allow to remove a lot of code an significantly
- clean the drivers.
-
- This will affect the backlight code which won't be able to know
- if the backlight is on or off. The platform display file will also be
- write only (like the one in eeepc-laptop).
-
- This should'nt affect a lot of user because they usually know
- when their display is on or off.
-
-Who: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: sysfs-class-rfkill state file
When: Feb 2014
Files: net/rfkill/core.c
----------------------------
-What: capifs
-When: February 2011
-Files: drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.*
-Why: udev fully replaces this special file system that only contains CAPI
- NCCI TTY device nodes. User space (pppdcapiplugin) works without
- noticing the difference.
-Who: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: KVM paravirt mmu host support
When: January 2011
Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
----------------------------
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: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394)
-When: 2.6.37
-Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c
-Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more
- features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller
- and more modern code base
-Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
-
-----------------------------
-
-What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option
-When: 2.6.37
-Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
-Why: superseded by acpi_sleep=nonvs
-Who: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
-
-----------------------------
-
What: PCI DMA unmap state API
When: August 2012
Why: PCI DMA unmap state API (include/linux/pci-dma.h) was replaced
----------------------------
-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: iwlwifi disable_hw_scan module parameters
+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.
+
+Who: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Legacy, non-standard chassis intrusion detection interface.
+When: June 2011
+Why: The adm9240, w83792d and w83793 hardware monitoring drivers have
+ legacy interfaces for chassis intrusion detection. A standard
+ interface has been added to each driver, so the legacy interface
+ can be removed.
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: xt_connlimit rev 0
+When: 2012
+Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
+Files: net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: ipt_addrtype match include file
+When: 2012
+Why: superseded by xt_addrtype
+Who: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
+Files: include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_addrtype.h
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: i2c_driver.attach_adapter
+ i2c_driver.detach_adapter
+When: September 2011
+Why: These legacy callbacks should no longer be used as i2c-core offers
+ a variety of preferable alternative ways to instantiate I2C devices.
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Support for driver specific ioctls in the pwc driver (everything
+ defined in media/pwc-ioctl.h)
+When: 3.3
+Why: This stems from the v4l1 era, with v4l2 everything can be done with
+ standardized v4l2 API calls
+Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Driver specific sysfs API in the pwc driver
+When: 3.3
+Why: Setting pan/tilt should be done with v4l2 controls, like with other
+ cams. The button is available as a standard input device
+Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Driver specific use of pixfmt.priv in the pwc driver
+When: 3.3
+Why: The .priv field never was intended for this, setting a framerate is
+ support using the standardized S_PARM ioctl
+Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: Software emulation of arbritary resolutions in the pwc driver
+When: 3.3
+Why: The pwc driver claims to support any resolution between 160x120
+ and 640x480, but emulates this by simply drawing a black border
+ around the image. Userspace can draw its own black border if it
+ really wants one.
+Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.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: 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: 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: 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: The XFS nodelaylog mount option
+When: 3.3
+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>
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