From 5ee6edbcde4d3b14e4e03d4b331df1099a34aa8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Len Brown Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:18:25 -0500 Subject: ACPI: hotkey: remove driver, per feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fa844fd7bded..7dec8e0193c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -246,29 +246,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- -<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt -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 - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for -- cgit v1.2.3