Re: [PATCH] remove usedac in feature-removal-schedule.txt

From: Cong Wang
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 02:48:15 EST


FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
The reason of removal, "replaced by allowdac and no dac combination"
is incorrect. There is no way to do the same thing with "allowdac" and
"nodac" combination.

The usedac option enables us to stop via_no_dac() setting forbid_dac
to 1. That is, someone who uses VIA bridges can use DAC with this
option even if some of VIA bridges seem to be broken about DAC.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hi,

This sounds reasonable for me.

Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 -------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 2a4d779..eb2c138 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -291,13 +291,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
---------------------------
-What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
-When: 2.6.27
-Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
-Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
-
----------------------------
-
What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol()
When: October 2009
Why: The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a

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