linux-kernel - so ... what's really and truly "obsolete" and can be tossed?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151202280.3861@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:03:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: so ... what's really and truly "obsolete" and can be tossed?

$ grep -wi obsolete $(find . -name Kconfig*)
./drivers/isdn/Kconfig:	  Therefore the old ISDN4Linux layer will eventually become obsolete.
./drivers/message/i2o/Kconfig:	bool "Enable ioctls (OBSOLETE)"
./drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig:	tristate "Bidirectional parallel port support (OBSOLETE)"
./drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig:	  Say Y here to support Sun's obsolete variant of IEEE1284
./drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig:	bool "Enable chip ids for obsolete ancient NAND devices"
./drivers/net/Kconfig:	  new card, since the 3c501 is slow, broken, and obsolete: you will
./drivers/block/paride/Kconfig:	  This option enables support for the (obsolete) EPIA parallel port
./drivers/block/paride/Kconfig:	  This option enables support for the (obsolete) 90c20 parallel port
./drivers/block/Kconfig:	  obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
./drivers/misc/Kconfig:	  This support was made obsolete by the generic ACPI docking station
./drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig:	bool "PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)"
./net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig:	tristate "ebt: ulog support (OBSOLETE)"
./net/netfilter/Kconfig:	  This target replaced the old obsolete QUEUE target.
./net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig:	tristate "IP6 Userspace queueing via NETLINK (OBSOLETE)"
./net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig:	tristate "IP Userspace queueing via NETLINK (OBSOLETE)"
./net/ipv4/Kconfig:	  This code is experimental and also obsolete. If you want to use it,
./lib/Kconfig.debug:	bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
./fs/Kconfig:	bool "Print quota warnings to console (OBSOLETE)"
./fs/Kconfig:	tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)"
./arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/Kconfig:	bool "iSeries Virtual Console Support (Obsolete)"
./arch/arm/Kconfig:	  1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
./arch/m68k/Kconfig:	  1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
./arch/sh/Kconfig:	  1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
./arch/x86/Kconfig:	  1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
./arch/mips/Kconfig:	  1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus.
./sound/core/Kconfig:	  Say Y here to support the obsolete ALSA PCM API (ver.0.9.0 rc3

rday
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