Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / Documentation / feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -6,14 +6,6 @@ be removed from this file.
 
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-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
@@ -107,17 +99,6 @@ Who:        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
 
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-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
@@ -130,15 +111,6 @@ Who:       Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-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
@@ -200,21 +172,6 @@ Who:       Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-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
@@ -338,3 +295,14 @@ Why:       The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainabilit
        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>