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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-disable | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 | 17 |
14 files changed, 232 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs new file mode 100644 index 000000000..24fb35adf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/devfs @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +What: devfs +Date: July 2005 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.18 +Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Description: + devfs has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. + + The files fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h were removed, + along with the assorted devfs function calls throughout the + kernel tree. + +Users: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c2310b667 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +What: dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/dv1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire + controller and for NTSC and PAL respectively, from which DV data + could be received by read() or transmitted by write(). A few + ioctl()s allowed limited control. + This special-purpose interface has been superseded by libraw1394 + + libiec61883 which are functionally equivalent, support HDV, and + transparently work on top of the newer firewire kernel drivers. + +Users: + ffmpeg/libavformat (if configured for DV1394) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue b/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3243613bc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/ip_queue @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What: ip_queue +Date: finally removed in kernel v3.5.0 +Contact: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> +Description: + ip_queue has been replaced by nfnetlink_queue which provides + more advanced queueing mechanism to user-space. The ip_queue + module was already announced to become obsolete years ago. + +Users: diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma b/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a173aecc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/net_dma @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: tcp_dma_copybreak sysctl +Date: Removed in kernel v3.13 +Contact: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> +Description: + Formerly the lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads + that will be offloaded to a DMA copy engine. Removed due to + coherency issues of the cpu potentially touching the buffers + while dma is in flight. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb new file mode 100644 index 000000000..61cff238f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +What: /sys/o2cb symlink +Date: May 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev +Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink is + removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look + in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new + software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead. +Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to + ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9ec7ec493 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +What: raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level + access to FireWire buses. Its major drawbacks were its inability + to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level + of abstraction that required userspace clients to duplicate much + of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality. + + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit new file mode 100644 index 000000000..277437005 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-bus-nfit @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: /sys/bus/nd/devices/regionX/nfit/ecc_unit_size +Date: Aug, 2017 +KernelVersion: v4.14 (Removed v4.18) +Contact: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev +Description: + (RO) Size of a write request to a DIMM that will not incur a + read-modify-write cycle at the memory controller. + + When the nfit driver initializes it runs an ARS (Address Range + Scrub) operation across every pmem range. Part of that process + involves determining the ARS capabilities of a given address + range. One of the capabilities that is reported is the 'Clear + Uncorrectable Error Range Length Unit Size' (see: ACPI 6.2 + section 9.20.7.4 Function Index 1 - Query ARS Capabilities). + This property indicates the boundary at which the NVDIMM may + need to perform read-modify-write cycles to maintain ECC (Error + Correcting Code) blocks. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f25174eaf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-class-rfkill @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support + +For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/driver-api/rfkill.rst. + +What: /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim +Date: 09-Jul-2007 +KernelVersion v2.6.22 +Contact: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org +Description: This file was deprecated because there no longer was a way to + claim just control over a single rfkill instance. + This file was scheduled to be removed in 2012, and was removed + in 2016. +Values: 0: Kernel handles events diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a8d46cd0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-fadump_release_opalcore @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This ABI is moved to /sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/release_core. + +What: /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore +Date: Sep 2019 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: write only + The sysfs file is available when the system is booted to + collect the dump on OPAL based machine. It used to release + the memory used to collect the opalcore. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids new file mode 100644 index 000000000..85a90b86c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-kernel-uids @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_shares +Date: December 2007, finally removed in kernel v2.6.34-rc1 +Contact: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> +Description: + The /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_shares tunable is used + to set the cpu bandwidth a user is allowed. This is a + proportional value. What that means is that if there + are two users logged in, each with an equal number of + shares, then they will get equal CPU bandwidth. Another + example would be, if User A has shares = 1024 and user + B has shares = 2048, User B will get twice the CPU + bandwidth user A will. For more details refer + Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ef5dd2a80 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-mce @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/tolerant +Contact: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> +Date: Dec, 2021 +Description: + Unused and obsolete after the advent of recoverable machine + checks (see last sentence below) and those are present since + 2010 (Nehalem). + + Original description: + + The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared + between all CPUs. + + Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a + non corrected machine check the kernel can take different + actions. + + Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is + sometimes risky for the kernel to kill a process because it + defies normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level + configures how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some + risk of deadlock. Higher tolerant values trade potentially + better uptime with the risk of a crash or even corruption + (for tolerant >= 3). + + == =========================================================== + 0 always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 1 panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 2 SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 3 never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) + == =========================================================== + + Default: 1 + + Note this only makes a difference if the CPU allows recovery + from a machine check exception. Current x86 CPUs generally + do not. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f599a0a87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +What: /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot +Date: April 2005 (predates git) +KernelVersion: 2.6.12-rc2 (predates git) +Contact: selinux@vger.kernel.org +Description: + + REMOVAL UPDATE: The SELinux checkreqprot functionality was removed in + March 2023, the original deprecation notice is shown below. + + The selinuxfs "checkreqprot" node allows SELinux to be configured + to check the protection requested by userspace for mmap/mprotect + calls instead of the actual protection applied by the kernel. + This was a compatibility mechanism for legacy userspace and + for the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. However, if set to + 1, it weakens security by allowing mappings to be made executable + without authorization by policy. The default value of checkreqprot + at boot was changed starting in Linux v4.4 to 0 (i.e. check the + actual protection), and Android and Linux distributions have been + explicitly writing a "0" to /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot during + initialization for some time. Support for setting checkreqprot to 1 + will be removed no sooner than June 2021, at which point the kernel + will always cease using checkreqprot internally and will always + check the actual protections being applied upon mmap/mprotect calls. + The checkreqprot selinuxfs node will remain for backward compatibility + but will discard writes of the "0" value and will reject writes of the + "1" value when this mechanism is removed. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-disable b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-disable new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb783c64c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/sysfs-selinux-disable @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +What: /sys/fs/selinux/disable +Date: April 2005 (predates git) +KernelVersion: 2.6.12-rc2 (predates git) +Contact: selinux@vger.kernel.org +Description: + + REMOVAL UPDATE: The SELinux runtime disable functionality was removed + in March 2023, the original deprecation notice is shown below. + + The selinuxfs "disable" node allows SELinux to be disabled at runtime + prior to a policy being loaded into the kernel. If disabled via this + mechanism, SELinux will remain disabled until the system is rebooted. + + The preferred method of disabling SELinux is via the "selinux=0" boot + parameter, but the selinuxfs "disable" node was created to make it + easier for systems with primitive bootloaders that did not allow for + easy modification of the kernel command line. Unfortunately, allowing + for SELinux to be disabled at runtime makes it difficult to secure the + kernel's LSM hooks using the "__ro_after_init" feature. + + Thankfully, the need for the SELinux runtime disable appears to be + gone, the default Kconfig configuration disables this selinuxfs node, + and only one of the major distributions, Fedora, supports disabling + SELinux at runtime. Fedora is in the process of removing the + selinuxfs "disable" node and once that is complete we will start the + slow process of removing this code from the kernel. + + More information on /sys/fs/selinux/disable can be found under the + CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE Kconfig option. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1905d35a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire + controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an + alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had + performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had + to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide + asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration. + + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) |