Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760336AbXEMUK2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 16:10:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757349AbXEMUKV (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 16:10:21 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:38432 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756071AbXEMUKU (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 16:10:20 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <464770A0.4070809@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:10:08 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: undeprecate raw driver. References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 26 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2007, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > >> In article you wrote: >>> in short, do *not* remove its "deprecated" status. rather, remove its >>> "obsolete" status and *make* it deprecated. >> it is deprecated and obsolete. > > no, it's not. and, trust me, no one on this list wants me to have to > explain all that again. :-) So why don't we simply say: - "Users of feature A are urged to migrate to alternative B." - "Feature C will be removed in February 2038." Everybody understands the meaning of /that/. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/