Loading Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +45 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -273,3 +273,48 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) When: 2.6.21 Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than the same. Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform are different, so there will always be a need for platform-specific drivers. So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same to the user when they supply the same features. hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary and have no place being exposed to user-space. For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- What: /proc/acpi/button When: August 2007 Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer since 2.6.20. Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- MAINTAINERS +34 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -207,16 +207,45 @@ S: Supported ACPI P: Len Brown M: len.brown@intel.com M: lenb@kernel.org L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git S: Maintained S: Supported ACPI BATTERY DRIVERS P: Vladimir P. Lebedev M: vladimir.p.lebedev@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI EC DRIVER P: Alexey Starikovskiy M: alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI FAN DRIVER P: Konstantin A. Karasyov M: konstantin.a.karasyov@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI PCI HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported ACPI THERMAL DRIVER P: Konstantin A. Karasyov M: konstantin.a.karasyov@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported AD1816 SOUND DRIVER P: Thorsten Knabe Loading Loading @@ -1085,7 +1114,7 @@ DOCKING STATION DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained S: Supported DOUBLETALK DRIVER P: James R. Van Zandt Loading Loading @@ -2535,7 +2564,7 @@ PCIE HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM P: Linux PCMCIA Team Loading Loading @@ -3035,7 +3064,7 @@ SHPC HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported SECURE DIGITAL HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE DRIVER P: Pierre Ossman Loading arch/i386/kernel/acpi/cstate.c +5 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check); /* The code below handles cstate entry with monitor-mwait pair on Intel*/ struct cstate_entry_s { struct cstate_entry { struct { unsigned int eax; unsigned int ecx; } states[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; }; static struct cstate_entry_s *cpu_cstate_entry; /* per CPU ptr */ static struct cstate_entry *cpu_cstate_entry; /* per CPU ptr */ static short mwait_supported[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; Loading @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static short mwait_supported[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; int acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe(unsigned int cpu, struct acpi_processor_cx *cx, struct acpi_power_register *reg) { struct cstate_entry_s *percpu_entry; struct cstate_entry *percpu_entry; struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = cpu_data + cpu; cpumask_t saved_mask; Loading Loading @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe); void acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter(struct acpi_processor_cx *cx) { unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id(); struct cstate_entry_s *percpu_entry; struct cstate_entry *percpu_entry; percpu_entry = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_cstate_entry, cpu); mwait_idle_with_hints(percpu_entry->states[cx->index].eax, Loading @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int __init ffh_cstate_init(void) if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) return -1; cpu_cstate_entry = alloc_percpu(struct cstate_entry_s); cpu_cstate_entry = alloc_percpu(struct cstate_entry); return 0; } Loading drivers/acpi/ec.c +2 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1016,8 +1016,8 @@ static int __init acpi_ec_set_intr_mode(char *str) acpi_ec_mode = EC_POLL; } acpi_ec_driver.ops.add = acpi_ec_add; ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "EC %s mode.\n", intr ? "interrupt" : "polling")); printk(KERN_NOTICE PREFIX "%s mode.\n", intr ? "interrupt" : "polling"); return 1; } Loading drivers/acpi/processor_core.c +0 −3 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struct acpi_processor *pr) if (cpu_index == -1) { if (ACPI_FAILURE (acpi_processor_hotadd_init(pr->handle, &pr->id))) { printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x%x\n", pr->acpi_id); return -ENODEV; } } Loading Loading
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +45 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -273,3 +273,48 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) When: 2.6.21 Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than the same. Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform are different, so there will always be a need for platform-specific drivers. So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same to the user when they supply the same features. hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary and have no place being exposed to user-space. For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- What: /proc/acpi/button When: August 2007 Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer since 2.6.20. Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> ---------------------------
MAINTAINERS +34 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -207,16 +207,45 @@ S: Supported ACPI P: Len Brown M: len.brown@intel.com M: lenb@kernel.org L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git S: Maintained S: Supported ACPI BATTERY DRIVERS P: Vladimir P. Lebedev M: vladimir.p.lebedev@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI EC DRIVER P: Alexey Starikovskiy M: alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI FAN DRIVER P: Konstantin A. Karasyov M: konstantin.a.karasyov@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported ACPI PCI HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported ACPI THERMAL DRIVER P: Konstantin A. Karasyov M: konstantin.a.karasyov@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org W: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ S: Supported AD1816 SOUND DRIVER P: Thorsten Knabe Loading Loading @@ -1085,7 +1114,7 @@ DOCKING STATION DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained S: Supported DOUBLETALK DRIVER P: James R. Van Zandt Loading Loading @@ -2535,7 +2564,7 @@ PCIE HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM P: Linux PCMCIA Team Loading Loading @@ -3035,7 +3064,7 @@ SHPC HOTPLUG DRIVER P: Kristen Carlson Accardi M: kristen.c.accardi@intel.com L: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net S: Maintained S: Supported SECURE DIGITAL HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE DRIVER P: Pierre Ossman Loading
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/cstate.c +5 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check); /* The code below handles cstate entry with monitor-mwait pair on Intel*/ struct cstate_entry_s { struct cstate_entry { struct { unsigned int eax; unsigned int ecx; } states[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; }; static struct cstate_entry_s *cpu_cstate_entry; /* per CPU ptr */ static struct cstate_entry *cpu_cstate_entry; /* per CPU ptr */ static short mwait_supported[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; Loading @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static short mwait_supported[ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER]; int acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe(unsigned int cpu, struct acpi_processor_cx *cx, struct acpi_power_register *reg) { struct cstate_entry_s *percpu_entry; struct cstate_entry *percpu_entry; struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = cpu_data + cpu; cpumask_t saved_mask; Loading Loading @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe); void acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter(struct acpi_processor_cx *cx) { unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id(); struct cstate_entry_s *percpu_entry; struct cstate_entry *percpu_entry; percpu_entry = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_cstate_entry, cpu); mwait_idle_with_hints(percpu_entry->states[cx->index].eax, Loading @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int __init ffh_cstate_init(void) if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) return -1; cpu_cstate_entry = alloc_percpu(struct cstate_entry_s); cpu_cstate_entry = alloc_percpu(struct cstate_entry); return 0; } Loading
drivers/acpi/ec.c +2 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1016,8 +1016,8 @@ static int __init acpi_ec_set_intr_mode(char *str) acpi_ec_mode = EC_POLL; } acpi_ec_driver.ops.add = acpi_ec_add; ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "EC %s mode.\n", intr ? "interrupt" : "polling")); printk(KERN_NOTICE PREFIX "%s mode.\n", intr ? "interrupt" : "polling"); return 1; } Loading
drivers/acpi/processor_core.c +0 −3 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struct acpi_processor *pr) if (cpu_index == -1) { if (ACPI_FAILURE (acpi_processor_hotadd_init(pr->handle, &pr->id))) { printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x%x\n", pr->acpi_id); return -ENODEV; } } Loading