Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262283AbTGKOf5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:35:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262498AbTGKOf4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:35:56 -0400 Received: from mail.cybertrails.com ([162.42.150.35]:2573 "EHLO mail1.cybertrails.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262283AbTGKOfz (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:35:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:50:31 -0700 From: Paul Dickson To: Dave Jones Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-Id: <20030711075031.425605cc.dickson@permanentmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1295 Lines: 31 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:19 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > Deprecated features. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - khttpd is gone. > - Older Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) support (For XFree86 4.0) > has been removed. Upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 or higher. > - LVM1 has been removed. See Device-mapper below. > - boot time root= parsing changed. > ramdisks are now ram instead of rd and cm206 is cm206cd (instead of > cm206). > - The system call table is no longer exported. Any module that relied > on this previously will no longer work. > - Soundmodem hamradio support has been removed. Its functionality > has been superceded by a userspace replacement. > http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem > - Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported. > 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. These are not deprecated, they are gone. Deprecated means "in the process of being phased out, but still usable". -Paul Dickson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/