On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:36:48 CDT, Rob Landley said:

> Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt?  (People check that for 
> warning of upcoming changes that impact existing code.  They may not notice
> something elsewhere after they've got it working...)
>
> (Also, sorting feature-removal-schedule.txt by date would be really nice.  The
> sucker's gotten huge...)

Maybe it's time we actually start heaving stuff over the side, especially
that stuff that the removal date has gone by?

What:   dev->power.power_state
When:   July 2007
What:   Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When:   December 2006
What:   remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When:   August 2006
What:   CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
When:   June 2006
What:   eepro100 network driver
When:   January 2007

5 out of 26 things - close to 20% - is already overdue for nuking.  In some
cases, over a year overdue.

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