Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 28/05/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>   i'm trying to keep track of kernel janitor projects that involve
> removing dead content from the tree:
>
> http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Kernel_Janitor%27s_Todo_List
>
> currently, the list contains the items:
>
>     * 1 Legacy power management
>     * 2 PCMCIA IOCTL support
>     * 3 Traffic shaper
>     * 4 Traffic policing
>     * 5 Userspace queueing via NETLINK
>     * 6 ebt: ulog support
>     * 7 MOXA SmartIO support
>     * 8 Old I2O ioctls
>     * 9 Stallion drivers
>     * 10 SDL RISCom/8 support
>     * 11 Macintosh M68K support
>     * 12 Commodore A2232 serial support
>     * 13 CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
>     * 14 kernel_thread()
>
> which of the above are legitimate candidates for removal?  which are
> already underway in someone's local tree?  anything else that can
> be added?  etc, etc.

Take a look at Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Some of that stuff is already listed there along with who is in charge
of removing it and when.

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