Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965193AbXBYW6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:58:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965195AbXBYW6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:58:13 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:44604 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965193AbXBYW6M (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:58:12 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: E1aTUdPww7Ivb/oewQmDNPARSL8NWGmt8d8NXIHWvE1Y 1172444291 Message-ID: <45E214C9.5050709@imap.cc> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:59:21 +0100 From: Tilman Schmidt Organization: me - organized?? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061211 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek 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. References: <200702181935.07454.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45DB218E.1080106@imap.cc> <200702201942.50186.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45DB805C.5010808@imap.cc> <20070225104255.GD2045@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070225104255.GD2045@elf.ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig840D01E9974B242EFFAA7EF5" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2101 Lines: 57 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig840D01E9974B242EFFAA7EF5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 25.02.2007 11:42 schrieb Pavel Machek: > 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 alternativ= e >>> 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. >=20 > It probably never will. Some hardware is so obsolete that noone will > care :-). s/supported by/in active use with/ --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enig840D01E9974B242EFFAA7EF5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4hTRMdB4Whm86/kRAmRxAJ4lUiWTvkFcKYLlodqdbeIm6dmCsgCfVElm f9MhEXOJ8aD7IQtkel9badI= =11KI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig840D01E9974B242EFFAA7EF5-- - 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/