Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964794AbXBYKnE (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964792AbXBYKnD (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:03 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40299 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964791AbXBYKnA (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:42:55 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Roman Zippel , Andrew Morton , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. Message-ID: <20070225104255.GD2045@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200702181935.07454.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45DB218E.1080106@imap.cc> <200702201942.50186.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45DB805C.5010808@imap.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45DB805C.5010808@imap.cc> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 29 On Wed 2007-02-21 00:12:28, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 20.02.2007 23:52 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > > "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. > > So, to take a specific example (incidentally the one I am > personally interested in): > > isdn4linux (CONFIG_ISDN_I4L), currently marked as "obsolete" > (which is undoubtedly incorrect), would not even qualify as > "deprecated" as long as its successor, the CAPI 2.0 subsystem > (CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) doesn't support all the hardware currently > supported by old i4l. It probably never will. Some hardware is so obsolete that noone will care :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/