2.6.25-rc4

 Documentation

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 20c4c8b..c1d1fd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -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>
-
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-
 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>
-
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-
 What:   remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
 When:   August 2006
 Files:   arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
@@ -130,15 +111,6 @@ Who:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
 
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-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
@@ -156,22 +128,6 @@ Who:   Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
 
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-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
@@ -191,15 +147,6 @@ Who:   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
 
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-What:   i2c_adapter.list
-When:   July 2007
-Why:   Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver
-   core.
-Who:   Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
-   David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:   ACPI procfs interface
 When:   July 2008
 Why:   ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
@@ -225,26 +172,13 @@ Who:   Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
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-What:   i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers
-When:   September 2007
-Why:   Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific
-   I2C-over-GPIO drivers.
-Who:   Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
-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:   ide-tape driver
+When:   July 2008
+Files:   drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+Why:   This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
+   reason is an effort no one wants to make.
+Who:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
+   <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
 
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@@ -266,22 +200,6 @@ Who:  Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
 
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-What:   Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips)
-When:   November 2007
-Why:   Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers.
-Who:   Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
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-
-What:   iptables SAME target
-When:   1.1. 2008
-Files:   net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h
-Why:   Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour.
-   Unfixable broken wrt. 32/64 bit cleanness.
-Who:   Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
-
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-
 What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories
 When: Jun 2008
 Why:  The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64
@@ -295,16 +213,6 @@ Who:  linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
 
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-What:   mthca driver's MSI support
-When:   January 2008
-Files:   drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/*.[ch]
-Why:   All mthca hardware also supports MSI-X, which provides
-   strictly more functionality than MSI.  So there is no point in
-   having both MSI-X and MSI support in the driver.
-Who:   Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
-
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-
 What:   sk98lin network driver
 When:   Feburary 2008
 Why:    In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
@@ -323,13 +231,100 @@ Who:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
 
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-What:   shaper network driver
-When:   January 2008
-Files:   drivers/net/shaper.c, include/linux/if_shaper.h
-Why:   This driver has been marked obsolete for many years.
-   It was only designed to work on lower speed links and has design
-   flaws that lead to machine crashes. The qdisc infrastructure in
-   2.4 or later kernels, provides richer features and is more robust.
-Who:   Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
+---------------------------
+
+What:   i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4
+When:   May 2008
+Why:   These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
+Who:   Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
 
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+
+What:   bcm43xx wireless network driver
+When:   2.6.26
+Files:   drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx
+Why:   This driver's functionality has been replaced by the
+   mac80211-based b43 and b43legacy drivers.
+Who:   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   ieee80211 softmac wireless networking component
+When:   2.6.26 (or after removal of bcm43xx and port of zd1211rw to mac80211)
+Files:   net/ieee80211/softmac
+Why:   No in-kernel drivers will depend on it any longer.
+Who:   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   rc80211-simple rate control algorithm for mac80211
+When:   2.6.26
+Files:   net/mac80211/rc80211-simple.c
+Why:   This algorithm was provided for reference but always exhibited bad
+   responsiveness and performance and has some serious flaws. It has been
+   replaced by rc80211-pid.
+Who:   Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What (Why):
+   - include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_TOS.h ipt_tos.h header files
+     (superseded by xt_TOS/xt_tos target & match)
+
+   - "forwarding" header files like ipt_mac.h in
+     include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ and include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/
+
+   - xt_CONNMARK match revision 0
+     (superseded by xt_CONNMARK match revision 1)
+
+   - xt_MARK target revisions 0 and 1
+     (superseded by xt_MARK match revision 2)
+
+   - xt_connmark match revision 0
+     (superseded by xt_connmark match revision 1)
+
+   - xt_conntrack match revision 0
+     (superseded by xt_conntrack match revision 1)
+
+   - xt_iprange match revision 0,
+     include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_iprange.h
+     (superseded by xt_iprange match revision 1)
+
+   - xt_mark match revision 0
+     (superseded by xt_mark match revision 1)
+
+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>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   init_mm export
+When:   2.6.26
+Why:   Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
+   work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved
+   by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code
+   of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such
+   code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
+   out-of-tree driver.
+Who:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>