The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
  removed in the kernel source tree.  Every entry should contain what
  exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing
  the work.  When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also
  be removed from this file.
  
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  What:	old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
  When:	2.6.29
  Why:	The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
  	which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
  	not want to keep static regulatory domains in the kernel due to the
  	the dynamic nature of regulatory law and localization. We kept around
  	the old static definitions for the regulatory domains of:
  		* US
  		* JP
  		* EU
  	and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
  	set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
  	some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
  	can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
  Who:	Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	dev->power.power_state

  When:	July 2007
  Why:	Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing
  	driver-internal runtime power management with:  mechanisms to support
  	system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish
  	different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy
  	inputs.  This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to
  	use it were broken.  Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific
  	interfaces either to kernel or to userspace.
  Who:	Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
  
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  What:	Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.

  When:	December 2008
  Files:	include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h
  Check:	include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h
  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.

  	Compatibility ioctls will be provided, for a while, via 
  	v4l1-compat module. 
  Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>

  
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  What:	PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
  When:	November 2005
  Files:	drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c
  Why:	With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a
  	normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel
  	infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA
  	control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is
  	unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the
  	PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more
  	difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either
  	handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new
  	pcmciautils package available at
  	http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/
  Who:	Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>

  
  ---------------------------

  What:	sys_sysctl
  When:	September 2010
  Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
  Why:	The same information is available in a more convenient from
  	/proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
  	important performance wise.
  
  	Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
  	bugs and security issues.
  
  	When I looked several months ago all I could find after
  	searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
  	glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
  
  	The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
  	space programs.
  
  	sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
  	space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
  
  	For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
  	sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
  
  	Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
  	properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
  	2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
  	them and end the pain.
  
  	In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
  	in a piecewise fashion.
  
  Who:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
  
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  What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
  When:	August 2006
  Files:	arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c

  Check:	kernel_thread

  Why:	kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail.  Drivers should
          use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
  	implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
  	prevents bugs and code duplication
  Who:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
  	(temporary transition config option provided until then)
  	The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
  When:	before 2.6.19
  Why:	Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary
  	and are often a sign of "wrong API"
  Who:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
  
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  What:	PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment

  When:	October 2008

  Why:	The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and
  	inconsistent.
  	Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus
  	devices have SUBSYTEM and DRIVER as a replacement.
  Who:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
  
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  What:	ACPI procfs interface

  When:	July 2008
  Why:	ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
  	ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that
  	there is enough time for the user space to catch up.

  Who:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	/proc/acpi/button
  When:	August 2007
  Why:	/proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer
  	since 2.6.20.
  Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	/proc/acpi/event
  When:	February 2008
  Why:	/proc/acpi/event has been replaced by events via the input layer
  	and netlink since 2.6.23.
  Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
  
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  What: libata spindown skipping and warning

  When: Dec 2008

  Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
        down libata disks because libata didn't use to spin down disk on
        system halt (only synchronized caches).
        Spin down on system halt is now implemented.  sysfs node
        /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop is present if
        spin down support is available.

        Because issuing spin down command to an already spun down disk

        makes some disks spin up just to spin down again, libata tracks
        device spindown status to skip the extra spindown command and
        warn about it.
        This is to give userspace tools the time to get updated and will
        be removed after userspace is reasonably updated.

  Who:  Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
  
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  What:	i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks

  When:	April 2010

  
  Why:	The i386/x86_64 merge provides a symlink to the old bzImage
  	location so not yet updated user space tools, e.g. package
  	scripts, do not break.
  Who:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

  
  ---------------------------

  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)

  	- xt_recent: the old ipt_recent proc dir
  	  (superseded by /proc/net/xt_recent)

  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:	usedac i386 kernel parameter
  When:	2.6.27
  Why:	replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
  Who:	Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>

  ---------------------------

  What:	remove HID compat support
  When:	2.6.29
  Why:	needed only as a temporary solution until distros fix themselves up
  Who:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
  
  ---------------------------

  What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol()
  When: October 2009
  Why:  The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a
        simpler way.  print_fn_descriptor_symbol() is deprecated but
        still present to give out-of-tree modules time to change.
  Who:  Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	/sys/o2cb symlink
  When:	January 2010
  Why:	/sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
  	exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of
  	ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
  	which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
  Who:	ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com

  
  ---------------------------

  What:	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD,
  	SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD
  When: 	June 2009
  Why:    A newer version of the options have been introduced in 2005 that
  	removes the limitions of the old API.  The sctp library has been
          converted to use these new options at the same time.  Any user
  	space app that directly uses the old options should convert to using
  	the new options.
  Who:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

  
  ---------------------------

  What:	CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
  When:	January 2009
  Why:	This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
  	to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
  	removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available.
  Who:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>

  
  ---------------------------
  
  What:	Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
  	(in net/core/net-sysfs.c)
  When:	After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches
  	for enough time, probably some time in 2010.
  Why:	Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other
  	ways (ioctls)
  Who:	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

  
  ---------------------------
  
  What: CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
  When: 2.6.29
  Why:  Accounting can now be enabled/disabled without kernel recompilation.
        Currently used only to set a default value for a feature that is also
        controlled by a kernel/module/sysfs/sysctl parameter.
  Who:  Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>

  ---------------------------

  What:	i2c_attach_client(), i2c_detach_client(), i2c_driver->detach_client()
  When:	2.6.29 (ideally) or 2.6.30 (more likely)
  Why:	Deprecated by the new (standard) device driver binding model. Use
  	i2c_driver->probe() and ->remove() instead.
  Who:	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

  
  ---------------------------

  What:	fscher and fscpos drivers
  When:	June 2009
  Why:	Deprecated by the new fschmd driver.
  Who:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
  	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
  
  ---------------------------

  What:	SELinux "compat_net" functionality
  When:	2.6.30 at the earliest
  Why:	In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net"
  	network access control functionality of SELinux.  Secmark offers both
  	better performance and greater flexibility than the "compat_net"
  	mechanism.  Now that the major Linux distributions have moved to
  	Secmark, it is time to deprecate the older mechanism and start the
  	process of removing the old code.
  Who:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>