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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-01-11 01:55:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-01-11 01:55:25 -0500 |
| commit | 85f4544fbf02f60993c76f5b92517a87f220472d (patch) | |
| tree | f88eb4526e9cb6684f93b04ab440b42634aa5728 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | f3a2c3ee458bd614231e548c13acb0cf33a68631 (diff) | |
| parent | 8b59a454c421542a51c391f542c80d165f7547a0 (diff) | |
Pull trivial into release branch
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f2024df7ebe5..fc532395d116 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -273,3 +273,48 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- + +What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use + ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented + in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented + vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than + the same. + + Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform + are different, so there will always be a need for + platform-specific drivers. + + So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the + platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same + to the user when they supply the same features. + + hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL + +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace +When: 2.6.21 +Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for + the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary + and have no place being exposed to user-space. + + For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, + the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump + and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: + http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils + +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@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 + +--------------------------- + +What: /proc/acpi/button +When: August 2007 +Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer + since 2.6.20.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> + +--------------------------- |