From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271934AbTHDQyJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:54:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271937AbTHDQyJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:54:09 -0400 Received: from dns.toxicfilms.tv ([150.254.37.24]:65202 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271934AbTHDQyE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:54:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:53:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Maciej Soltysiak To: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] post-halloween consolidation. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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//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//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.