* [PATCH] post-halloween consolidation.
@ 2003-08-04 16:53 Maciej Soltysiak
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From: Maciej Soltysiak @ 2003-08-04 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davej; +Cc: linux-kernel
Hi Dave,
post-halloween contains two similar sections:
Deprecated features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
and
Deprecated
~~~~~~~~~~
This patch joins these sections together.
Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak
--- post-halloween-2.5.txt 2003-08-04 18:49:17.000000000 +0200
+++ post-halloween-2.5.txt.1 2003-08-04 18:49:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@
You should now use a boot loader program instead.
- Callout tty devices (/dev/cua) have been deprecated since 2.1.90pre2.
Support is now removed.
+- usbdevfs will be going away in 2.7. The same filesystem can
+ be mounted as 'usbfs' in recent 2.4 kernels, and in 2.5.52
+ and above, which is what the filesystem will furthermore be
+ known as.
+- elvtune is deprecated (as are the ioctl's it used).
+ Instead, the io scheduler tunables are exported in sysfs (see below)
+ in the /sys/block/<device>/iosched directory.
+ Jens wrote a document explaining the tunables of the new scheduler at
+ http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/att-deadline-iosched.txt
Modules.
~~~~~~~~
@@ -887,18 +896,6 @@
- The in-kernel loopback device can now do crypto using the CryptoAPI.
May need new userspace tools.
-Deprecated.
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-- usbdevfs will be going away in 2.7. The same filesystem can
- be mounted as 'usbfs' in recent 2.4 kernels, and in 2.5.52
- and above, which is what the filesystem will furthermore be
- known as.
-- elvtune is deprecated (as are the ioctl's it used).
- Instead, the io scheduler tunables are exported in sysfs (see below)
- in the /sys/block/<device>/iosched directory.
- Jens wrote a document explaining the tunables of the new scheduler at
- http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/att-deadline-iosched.txt
-
Ports.
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