how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  as time goes by, the informational value of the feature removal file
is rapidly approaching zero, as alleged deadlines for removal are
continually dismissed, while some removal dates as far back as 2005
are still in that file.

  if those features aren't going to be removed, then will someone at
least recalibrate their removal dates and update that file?

rday

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Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

[Stefan Richter]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   as time goes by, the informational value of the feature removal file
> is rapidly approaching zero, as alleged deadlines for removal are
> continually dismissed, while some removal dates as far back as 2005
> are still in that file.
> 
>   if those features aren't going to be removed, then will someone at
> least recalibrate their removal dates and update that file?

I'm adding Ccs of a few people, as LKML is a high volume list.
Overdue items are:

What:	Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When:	December 2006

What:	PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
When:	November 2005

What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When:	August 2006

What:	CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
When:	June 2006

What:   eepro100 network driver
When:   January 2007

What:	Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
	(temporary transition config option provided until then)
When:	before 2.6.19

What:	i2c-isa
When:	December 2006

What:  drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS   [sic]
When:  options in 2.6.22, code in 2.6.24

	Note 1:	This entry is superseded by
		What:  drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE
		When:  options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25

	Note 2:	Current linux-2.6.22-git* has SOUND_BT878 and
		SOUND_CS4232 depending on OSS_OBSOLETE.

What:	/sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
When:	2.6.21
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Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

[Stefan Richter]

I wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   as time goes by, the informational value of the feature removal file
>> is rapidly approaching zero, as alleged deadlines for removal are
>> continually dismissed, while some removal dates as far back as 2005
>> are still in that file.
>>
>>   if those features aren't going to be removed, then will someone at
>> least recalibrate their removal dates and update that file?

Also remember to update contact addresses.

> What:	Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
> When:	December 2006

-Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
+Who:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

[Stefan Richter]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> This one took more time than expected,

These words sound strangely familiar, as if I often said them myself.
Can't be.
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