Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161005AbXBTWy3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:54:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161049AbXBTWy2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:54:28 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:39149 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161005AbXBTWy2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:54:28 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 74.102.209.62 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:52:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz cc: Tilman Schmidt , Roman Zippel , Andrew Morton , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. In-Reply-To: <200702201942.50186.bzolnier@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200702181935.07454.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45DB218E.1080106@imap.cc> <200702201942.50186.bzolnier@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1284 Lines: 35 On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:27, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > Is that really the consensus on these definitions? I thought it was > > more or less the opposite: > > > > * DEPRECATED == no (complete) replacement available yet, but it has > > been decided that this code is less than optimal and > > alternatives should be preferred just to clarify this, that's not my idea of "deprecated". "deprecated" means that there *is* a complete replacement available *right now* and you should consider switching to it. if you can't offer someone a completely functional, better alternative to what they're using now, then you can't say that what they're using now is deprecated. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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/