---------------------------
-What: MXSER
-When: December 2007
-Why: Old mxser driver is obsoleted by the mxser_new. Give it some time yet
- and remove it.
-Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: dev->power.power_state
When: July 2007
Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing
---------------------------
-What: a.out interpreter support for ELF executables
-When: 2.6.25
-Files: fs/binfmt_elf.c
-Why: Using a.out interpreters for ELF executables was a feature for
- transition from a.out to ELF. But now it is unlikely to be still
- needed anymore and removing it would simplify the hairy ELF
- loader code.
-Who: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006
Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
---------------------------
-What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
-When: June 2006
-Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
- 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
- the option should just go away entirely.
-Who: Arjan van de Ven
-
----------------------------
-
What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007
Why: replaced by the e100 driver
---------------------------
-What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
-When: February 2008
-Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
-Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been
- possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs
- that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB
- subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to
- register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs
- any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the
- userspace filesystems, please contact the
- linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers
- there will be glad to help you out.
-Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: vm_ops.nopage
When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted
Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around
---------------------------
-What: 'time' kernel boot parameter
-When: January 2008
-Why: replaced by 'printk.time=<value>' so that printk timestamps can be
- enabled or disabled as needed
-Who: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
-
----------------------------
-
-What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE
-When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25
-Why: obsolete OSS drivers
-Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-
----------------------------
-
What: libata spindown skipping and warning
When: Dec 2008
Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, whichever comes first
Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules
Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410
+When: July 2008
+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: Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
+When: 2.6.26
+Why: Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused. File system
+ layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
+ /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable. Making it work
+ is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
+ trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
+Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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