While the V4L1 compatibility module has been removed, we still have
two V4L1 drivers that prevent full V4L1 removal.

Those drivers have been moved to staging and will be removed in 2.6.39,
together with the last V4L1 support.
Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

It's about time to make it clear that i2c_adapter.id is deprecated.
Hopefully this will remind the last user to move over to a different
strategy.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: NJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

The ns_cgroup will be removed very soon.  Let's warn, for this version,
ns_cgroup is deprecated.

Make ns_cgroup and clone_children exclusive.  If the clone_children is set
and the ns_cgroup is mounted, let's fail with EINVAL when the ns_cgroup
subsys is created (a printk will help the user to understand why the
creation fails).

Update the feature remove schedule file with the deprecated ns_cgroup.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The driver author seems to not worked on this driver since its conversion
from 2.2 to 2.4. Nobody is known to have a stradis hardware for testing. As
it still uses V4L1 API, BKL and probably some other old stuff, someone would
need to work on it to preserve the driver. Instead of investing time and
efforts to keep porting it to work with new API's, it seems better to just
drop the driver.

So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody
cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver
that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver.
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

cpia driver were re-written inside gspca driver, for USB devices. The only
functionality that were not migrated is the support for parallel port,
as:
	1) the developer didn't find any hardware;
	2) it doesn't  seem important to keep support for a parallel port webcam,
	   as this is an obsolete technology;
	3) the changes at gspca for it to work with parallel port would be very large;
	4) this driver still uses BKL.

So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody
cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver
that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver.
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Remove all references to /dev/vtx in the documentation, except for
some historical comments in dev-teletext.xml.

Documentation/devices.txt is not updated, this will go through Alan Cox
who maintains this file.
Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

The drivers
  - ohci1394 (controller driver)
  - ieee1394 (core)
  - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
  - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
  - firewire-ohci (controller driver)
  - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
  - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.

The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core.  Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.

The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare.  Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.

The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.

There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
  - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
    NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
    I am looking into the M52xx issue.
  - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
    experimental cousin eth1394.
  - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
    chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
    This issue is still under investigation.
  - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers.  Of them,
    only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
    Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.

All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden.  The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Hardware scan is the prefer method for all iwlwifi devices;
especially for dual-mode functions. Schedule to deprecate the
software scan support in kernel 2.6.40
Signed-off-by: NWey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>

The syscall interface is has been replaced by a more flexible
interface since 2.6.0.  It is time to work towards discarding
the old interface.

So add a entry in feature-removal-schedule.txt and print a warning
when the interface is used.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

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.

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

This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: NAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

DMA_xxBIT_MASK macros were marked as deprecated in June 2009.  One more
year is long enough, I think.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It was replaced with the DMA unamp state API (which can be used for
any bus).
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

/proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be
removed.  The target date for removal is August 2012.

A warning will be printed to the kernel log if a task attempts to use this
interface.  Future warning will be suppressed until the kernel is rebooted
to prevent spamming the kernel log.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* functions are scheduled
to be unexported when 2.6.33. Now there are no other callers of them
out of cpufreq.c, unexport them and make them static.
Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

On 05/29/10 01:30, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:03:28 -0400
> Amerigo Wang<amwang@redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Remove obsolete zc0301 v4l driver
>>
>> Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only
>> supports 2 USB-ID's (because it only supports a limited set of
>> sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
>> (which supports 53 USB-ID's in total).
>
> You forgot to remove the conditionnal compilation in the gspca_zc3xx
> driver (USB_DEVICE(0x046d, 0x08ae) in gspca/zc3xx.c)
>

Right, thanks for pointing this out!

Attached is the updated patch, please use this one instead.

Thanks!

Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only
supports 2 USB-ID's (because it only supports a limited set of
sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
(which supports 53 USB-ID's in total).
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_stv0680
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Only used by obsoleted v4l1 driver
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

>From a97df96226e89d3539be93ddb5a8df3a2f7edcb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_ov519
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_ov519
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

obsolete v4l1 driver replaced by gspca_stv06xx
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Equivalent (and better) functionality is provided by user-allocated memory
regions.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt.  Equivalent support is provided
by overlapping memory regions.
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

nothing uses inotify in the kernel, drop it!
Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

This patch makes xtime and wall_to_monotonic static, as planned in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. This will allow for
further cleanups to the timekeeping core.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-10-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Commit 2a6b6976
(ACPI: Store NVS state even when entering suspend to RAM) caused the
ACPI suspend code save the NVS area during suspend and restore it
during resume unconditionally, although it is known that some systems
need to use acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs for hibernation to work.  To allow
the affected systems to avoid saving and restoring the NVS area
during suspend to RAM and resume, introduce kernel command line
option acpi_sleep=nonvs and make acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs work as its
alias temporarily (add acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs to the feature removal
file).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396 .
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-and-tested-by: Ntomas m <tmezzadra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT has been deprecated for awhile and
was originally scheduled for removal by 2.6.29.

Removing support for this config option also stops
this deprecation warning message in the kernel log.

[   61.669627] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[   61.669850] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
[   61.669852] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
[   61.669853] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
Signed-off-by: NTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
[Patrick: changed default value to 0]
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Per plan, acpi=ht was removed in 2.6.35-rc1.
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

All application domains that are supported by the old ieee1394 driver
stack are supported by the newer firewire driver stack too.  There is
now good and extensive experience with the newer stack from deployment
in Fedora since F7 as well as by enthusiast users of other
distributions.

The new drivers have consequently been recommended as the default ones
since 2.6.33, in order to fix some severe usability problems of FireWire
on Linux due to limitations of the old stack.  It is now high time to
announce when the obsolete drivers will be removed.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: NJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>

The only use of corgi_ssp.c is corgi_ts.c, which is now deprecated
and removed. Remove corgi_ssp.c and corgi_lcd.c and their relevant
function declarations and data structures.
Signed-off-by: NEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

Remove all code which is related to IRQF_DISABLED from the core kernel
code. IRQF_DISABLED still exists as a flag, but becomes a NOOP and
will be removed after a grace period. That way we can easily revert to
the previous behaviour by just restoring the core code.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.991244690@linutronix.de>

Internal alias support has been present in module-init-tools for some
time, the MODULE_ALIAS("iwl4965") boilerplate aliases can be removed.
Signed-off-by: NWey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

Module parameters used to be defined in both iwl-5000.c and iwl-4965.c,
after the code re-structure, merge into iwl-agn.c for easy to read and
maintenance.

Number of module parameters are deprecated after this merge. These are also
scheduled for removal by 2.6.40.

The current supported parameters are:

 parm: debug50:50XX debug output mask (deprecated) (uint)
 parm: debug:debug output mask (uint)
 parm: swcrypto50:using crypto in software (default 0 [hardware])
(deprecated) (bool)
 parm: swcrypto:using crypto in software (default 0 [hardware]) (int)
 parm: queues_num50:number of hw queues in 50xx series (deprecated)
(int)
 parm: queues_num:number of hw queues. (int)
 parm: 11n_disable50:disable 50XX 11n functionality (deprecated) (int)
 parm: 11n_disable:disable 11n functionality (int)
 parm: amsdu_size_8K50:enable 8K amsdu size in 50XX series (deprecated)
(int)
 parm: amsdu_size_8K:enable 8K amsdu size (int)
 parm: fw_restart50:restart firmware in case of error (deprecated) (int)
 parm: fw_restart:restart firmware in case of error (int)
 parm: disable_hw_scan:disable hardware scanning (default 0) (int)

Remove "antenna" module parameter, it is not being used in "agn" driver.
Signed-off-by: NWey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

The compat option was introduced in October 2008.
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

It is being superseded by xt_CT (-j CT --notrack).
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>