Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754028AbXIAJsW (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 05:48:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752734AbXIAJsK (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 05:48:10 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:54655 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752495AbXIAJsJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 05:48:09 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <46D93544.2030308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:47:48 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070807 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! References: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D92D8E.9020508@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 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: 762 Lines: 20 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > given the possible > interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now, > maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both > EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?). In theory maybe, for communication purposes perhaps rather not. The reasoning why a feature is deprecated will typically include the gotchas which caused the feature to be considered experimental, if such gotchas still apply. -- 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/