Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbXAQVyH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:54:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751759AbXAQVyH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:54:07 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:37462 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751797AbXAQVyG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:54:06 -0500 Message-Id: <200701172154.l0HLs3BM021024@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: "obsolete" versus "deprecated", and a new config option? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:51:27 EST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1169070843_4892P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:54:03 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1169070843_4892P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:51:27 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > in any event, what about introducing a new config variable, > OBSOLETE, under "Code maturity level options"? this would seem to be > a quick and dirty way to prune anything that is *supposed* to be > obsolete from the build, to make sure you're not picking up dead code > by accident. > > i think it would be useful to be able to make that kind of > distinction since, as the devfs writer pointed out above, the point of > labelling something "obsolete" is not to *discourage* someone from > using a feature, it's to imply that they *shouldn't* be using that > feature. period. which suggests there should be an easy, one-step > way to enforce that absolutely in a build. How much of the 'OBSOLETE' code should just be labelled 'BROKEN' instead? --==_Exmh_1169070843_4892P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFFrpr7cC3lWbTT17ARAkRIAKCJ9J+8muj86atq6Hfwean1LBU70gCgt4YJ qphHZ6nBXc8Pt2hpAJdwa4s= =RZu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1169070843_4892P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/