Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754551AbXIANO4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:14:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751947AbXIANOt (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:14:49 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:39187 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743AbXIANOs (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:14:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:14:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Stefan Richter cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! In-Reply-To: <46D93544.2030308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: References: <46D89800.8080701@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D92D8E.9020508@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46D93544.2030308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 25 On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote: >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. devfs would have been a good starting point for EXPERIMENTAL && (DECPREATED || OBSOLETE). >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. Jan -- - 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/