Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754866AbXIALEH (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 07:04:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752649AbXIALDy (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 07:03:54 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:35757 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752495AbXIALDx (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 07:03:53 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:52:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jeff Garzik cc: Stefan Richter , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! In-Reply-To: <46D94252.3000505@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D92D8E.9020508@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D94252.3000505@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 28 On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that > does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike > experimental/broken. and, as i've said before, i disagree. while one might debate what those words *mean*, or which features should be tagged thusly, i think there's a measurable value to be able to, with one mouse click, say you want to do a build test on the kernel which does not incorporate anything deemed deprecated and/or obsolete. if you don't agree, however, no amount of explaining that on my part is going to change your opinion. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/