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Sebastian Siewior
f7c5a770e6 m68knommu: add info about removing mcfserial
Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for
a while now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14 19:11:12 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5cd204550b Deprecate find_task_by_pid()
There are some places that are known to operate on tasks'
global pids only:

* the rest_init() call (called on boot)
* the kgdb's getthread
* the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns)

So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there
and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal.

[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin
3c18ddd160 mm: remove nopage
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more.  Remove support for it in the
core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in
comments).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8a32272688 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support.
2008-04-21 17:20:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
429f731dea Merge branch 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
  Deprecate the asm/semaphore.h files in feature-removal-schedule.
  Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
  security: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  lib: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  kernel: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  net: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  arch: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
2008-04-21 15:41:27 -07:00
David S. Miller
ec98c6b9b4 [SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support.
As per Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
d2f5e80862 Deprecate the asm/semaphore.h files in feature-removal-schedule.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-19 13:49:34 -04:00
Glauber Costa
fae9a0d8ca x86: merge iommu initialization parameters
we merge the iommu initialization parameters in pci-dma.c
Nice thing, that both architectures at least recognize the same
parameters.

usedac i386 parameter is marked for deprecation

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
334d094504 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits)
  [NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices
  [IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add().
  [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found
  [PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init().
  [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call.
  [INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call.
  SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked.
  [netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal
  phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device
  PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver
  cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg.
  tc35815: Statistics cleanup
  natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
  [TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code
  [TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table
  [TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines
  e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  sb1000.c: make const arrays static
  sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions
  ...
2008-04-18 18:02:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e675349e2b Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (64 commits)
  ocfs2/net: Add debug interface to o2net
  ocfs2: Only build ocfs2/dlm with the o2cb stack module
  ocfs2/cluster: Get rid of arguments to the timeout routines
  ocfs2: Put tree in MAINTAINERS
  ocfs2: Use BUG_ON
  ocfs2: Convert ocfs2 over to unlocked_ioctl
  ocfs2: Improve rename locking
  fs/ocfs2/aops.c: test for IS_ERR rather than 0
  ocfs2: Add inode stealing for ocfs2_reserve_new_inode
  ocfs2: Add ac_alloc_slot in ocfs2_alloc_context
  ocfs2: Add a new parameter for ocfs2_reserve_suballoc_bits
  ocfs2: Enable cross extent block merge.
  ocfs2: Add support for cross extent block
  ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb
  sysfs: Allow removal of symlinks in the sysfs root
  ocfs2:  Reconnect after idle time out.
  ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup lockres print
  ocfs2/dlm: Fix lockname in lockres print function
  ocfs2/dlm: Move dlm_print_one_mle() from dlmmaster.c to dlmdebug.c
  ocfs2/dlm: Dumps the purgelist into a debugfs file
  ...
2008-04-18 10:15:22 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
52f7c21b61 ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb
/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.

Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-04-18 08:56:10 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
19b4e7f4e9 x86: extend the scheduled bzImage symlinks removal
use of the bzImage symlinks in developer scripts is still widespread,
so lets extend the removal period by 2 years. These symlinks cost
us near nothing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:34 +02:00
David S. Miller
3bb5da3837 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-03 14:33:42 -07:00
David S. Miller
76fef2b6bf Merge branch 'upstream-net26' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c
2008-03-22 18:22:42 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
ca4e2ab5b2 Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months"
This reverts commit d48567dd43.

Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22 16:44:27 +01:00
David S. Miller
577f99c1d0 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
	net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
2008-03-18 00:37:55 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
548c36e983 sk98lin: remove obsolete driver
All the hardware supported by this driver is now supported
by the skge driver. The last remaining issue was support for ancient
dual port SysKonnect fiber boards, and the skge driver now does these
correctly (p.s. sk98lin was always broken on these old dual port
boards anyway).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-17 07:49:23 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
d9357136ac the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:02:31 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
7524d7d6de the scheduled ieee80211 softmac removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:02:31 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
2079fcdc06 the scheduled bcm43xx removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:01:04 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
757265b8c5 x86: delay the export removal of init_mm
delay the removal of this symbol export by one more kernel release,
giving external modules such as VirtualBox a chance to stop using it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-29 18:55:42 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
d48567dd43 ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-02-26 21:50:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0b6ca82af8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (32 commits)
  x86: cpa, strict range check in try_preserve_large_page()
  x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit
  x86: cpa, use page pool
  x86: introduce page pool in cpa
  x86: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: enable after mem_init()
  brk: help text typo fix
  lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries
  x86 PM: update stale comments
  x86 PM: consolidate suspend and hibernation code
  x86 PM: rename 32-bit files in arch/x86/power
  x86 PM: move 64-bit hibernation files to arch/x86/power
  x86: trivial printk optimizations
  x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops
  x86: construct 32-bit boot time page tables in native format.
  x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
  x86: avoid unused variable warning in mm/init_64.c
  x86: fixup more paravirt fallout
  brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re:
  x86: fix sparse warnings in acpi/bus.c
  x86: fix sparse warning in topology.c
  ...
2008-02-09 23:29:57 -08:00
David S. Miller
e88bb41595 [SPARC]: Add solaris/sunos binary support to feature removal schedule.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-09 23:08:53 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
185c045c24 x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
Other than the defconfigs, remove the entry in compiler-gcc4.h,
Kconfig.debug and feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-09 23:24:09 +01:00
Andi Kleen
d20894a237 Remove a.out interpreter support in ELF loader
Following the deprecation schedule the a.out ELF interpreter support
is removed now with this patch. a.out ELF interpreters were an transition
feature for moving a.out systems to ELF, but they're unlikely to be still
needed. Pure a.out systems will still work of course. This allows to
simplify the hairy ELF loader.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
a36219ac93 The scheduled 'time' option removal
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:36 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
1c45607ad3 Char: mxser, remove it
(Old) mxser is obsoleted by mxser_new and scheduled for removal on Dec 2007.
Remove it by renaming mxser_new to mxser.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:34 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
83bad1d764 scheduled OSS driver removal
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers whose config
options have been removed in 2.6.23.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
782e70c6fc USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed
there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the
GPL.  This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.

There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch
should cause no problems.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-01 14:35:07 -08:00
Michael Buesch
eb189d8bc9 b43: Add support for new firmware
This patch adds support for new firmware.
Old firmware is still supported until July 2008.

To get new firmware, go to
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt150nv11/1.51.3/
and download the tarball. We don't have a smaller tarball, yet.
That will be fixed later.
You can extract firmware out of the "wl_ap.o" file contained
in this tarball using latest fwcutter. You must pass the option
--unsupported to fwcutter.
Fwcutter-010 with official support for a new firmware image will
be released soon.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:09:50 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
f9ef8a23c3 [NETFILTER]: Update feature-removal-schedule.txt
With all the newly introduced features, there is a lot to remove
later on after a compatibility grace period of 2 years.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:28 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f1862b0ae2 [SHAPER]: The scheduled shaper removal.
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the shaper driver.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:29 -08:00
Stefano Brivio
a1464ab61e doc: fix typo in feature-removal-schedule
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:48 -08:00
Stefano Brivio
c21b39aca4 mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the default
This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the
rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in
several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was
relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such
as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave
better.

The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which
ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211
module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can
be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then
the choice is available to have no default specified and neither
algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set
through a modparam.

While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it
for removal.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:59:41 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
cb76c6a597 [NETFILTER]: ip_tables: remove obsolete SAME target
Remove the ipt_SAME target as scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:01 -08:00
John W. Linville
edae58ead5 softmac: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal
Schedule softmac for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:36 -08:00
John W. Linville
003faaa177 bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal
Schedule bcm43xx for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:35 -08:00
Jean Delvare
87c6c22945 i2c: Drop redundant i2c_adapter.list
i2c_adapter.list is superfluous, this list duplicates the one
maintained by the driver core. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
2008-01-27 18:14:48 +01:00
Jean Delvare
0f79b72e45 i2c: Deprecate drivers for I2C buses on video adapters
The framebuffer drivers for these pieces of hardware include support
for the DDC/I2C buses, so there is no need for separate drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-01-27 18:14:47 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
7e8b99251b i2c: some overdue driver removal
This patch contains the overdue removal of three I2C drivers.

[JD: In fact only i2c-ixp4xx can be removed at the moment, the other two
platforms don't implement the generic GPIO layer yet.]

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-01-27 18:14:46 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
eee87d3196 i2c: the scheduled I2C RTC driver removal
This patch contains the scheduled removal of legacy I2C RTC drivers with 
replacement drivers.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-01-27 18:14:45 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
e57895d389 IB/mthca: Remove MSI support as scheduled
Remove MSI support from the mthca driver, as scheduled.  There is no
reason to use MSI instead of MSI-X, since MSI-X performs better.  No
one has spoken up since MSI support was deprecated in commit f6be6fbe
("IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal"), so apparently the MSI
support is unused.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-01-25 14:15:33 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4ae44c5774 feature-removal-schedule: remove SA_* flags entry
No reason to keep the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry after the code
was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
11a5a10e0a V4L/DVB (6378b): Updates info about the removal of V4L1 at feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-22 12:01:52 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
148af72009 V4L/DVB (6378a): Removal of VIDIOC_[G|S]_MPEGCOMP from feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-22 12:01:52 -02:00
Adrian Bunk
fc37449f79 The next round of scheduled OSS code removal
This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7058cb02dd sysctl: deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set
of bugs.  Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost
patience with the binary sysctl interface.

The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and
finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then
finding a needle in a haystack.  Problems continue to crop up, with the in
kernel implementation.  So since supporting something that no one uses is
silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that
the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced.

The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be
supported indefinitely.

This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where
sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of
sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.

Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill
sys_sysctl.

[lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Andi Kleen
8e9073ed02 Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters
The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could
probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter).  One particular
messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out ld.sos.  This was
originally added to make transition from a.out to ELF easier because an
a.out ELF ld.so could be still build using an older a.out toolkit.  But by
now that should be fully obsolete and removing it would clean up
binfmt_elf.c up a bit.

I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25.

Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so
they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel.

This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk
warning users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: better warning message]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Richard Purdie
70093178b6 Input: remove tsdev interface
Remove the obsolete tsdev.c driver as scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2007-10-13 00:38:52 -04:00