Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755331AbXENNyE (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:54:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753012AbXENNxz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:53:55 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55972 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751060AbXENNxz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 09:53:55 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bob Johnston Subject: Re: undeprecate raw driver. Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <464770A0.4070809@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070514124210.71d94d58@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 137.222.211.69 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 18 Alan Cox lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > Why not just use the terms: > > * outdated - as a replacement for "deprecated". > > Because they don't actually mean the same thing ? "superseded" would probably be a better word, perhaps lacking the negative connotations of "deprecated" > > * toberemoved - as a replacement for "obsolete". > > With spaces, I'd hope. Sure. I'm just trying to propose an alternative because it seems that deprecated/obsolete causes some confusion. - 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/