2003-08-04 16:54:09

by Maciej Soltysiak

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Subject: [PATCH] post-halloween consolidation.

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.