---------------------------
+What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER
+When: January 2006
+Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
When: April 2006
Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
---------------------------
-What: IEEE1394 Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver,
- Connection Management Procedures driver
-When: November 2005
-Files: drivers/ieee1394/{amdtp,cmp}*
-Why: These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented
- in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for
- example.)
-Who: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
When: November 2005
Why: Deprecated in favour of the new ioctl-based rawiso interface, which is
---------------------------
+What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
+When: July 2006
+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.
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: i2c sysfs name change: in1_ref, vid deprecated in favour of cpu0_vid
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1025.c, drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c
---------------------------
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_timeout)
+When: April 2006
+Files: kernel/panic.c
+Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)
+When: April 2006
+Files: kernel/resource.c
+Why: No modular usage in the kernel.
+Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When: November 2005
Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue
instead of the current 'libipq'.
Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
+When: January 2006
+Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
+When: July 2006
+Files: drivers/md/md.c
+Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
+ Alternatives exist
+Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: au1x00_uart driver
+When: January 2006
+Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
+ between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
+ brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
+ issue.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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