X-Git-Url: https://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=d8f36f984faa517c84883f625a93ee45a3f91dcc;hb=0851668fdd97e526b2a41f794b785c204dd3d3e0;hp=f3da8c0a3af21ca7b2d958e415f9e83ceae01f7f;hpb=00ebb6382b8d9c7c15b5f8ad230670d8161d38dd;p=net-next-2.6.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f3da8c0a3af..d8f36f984fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices. -When: July 2009 +When: kernel 2.6.38 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 @@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- +What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API +When: kernel 2.6.38 +Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* drivers/staging/stradis/* +Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c +Why: There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done + to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer + didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer + could find any hardware to buy. They probably have no practical usage today, + and people with such old hardware could probably keep using an older version + of the kernel. Those drivers will be moved to staging on 2.6.37 and, if nobody + care enough to port and test them with V4L2 API, they'll be removed on 2.6.38. +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab + +--------------------------- + What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL @@ -470,29 +485,6 @@ When: April 2011 Why: Superseded by xt_CT Who: Netfilter developer team ---------------------------- - -What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support -When: 2.6.35 -Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c - include/linux/videotext.h -Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes - for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support. - Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249 - has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware - that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically - supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked. - - In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there - are no applications actually implementing this API. - - The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really - like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely - event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality - provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build - around the sliced VBI API instead. -Who: Hans Verkuil - ---------------------------- What: IRQF_DISABLED