Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755322AbXIANxv (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753216AbXIANxo (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:53:44 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51520 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752868AbXIANxn (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <46D96EE3.9050101@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:53:39 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Stefan Richter , "Robert P. J. Day" , 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> <46D93544.2030308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 24 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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). Humorous or not, this serves to indicate how synonymous 'deprecated' and 'obsolete' are. Jeff - 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/