linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702201750030.11016@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:52:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
cc:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and
 OBSOLETE.

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:27, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> > Is that really the consensus on these definitions? I thought it was
> > more or less the opposite:
> >
> > * DEPRECATED == no (complete) replacement available yet, but it has
> >   been decided that this code is less than optimal and
> >   alternatives should be preferred

just to clarify this, that's not my idea of "deprecated".
"deprecated" means that there *is* a complete replacement available
*right now* and you should consider switching to it.

if you can't offer someone a completely functional, better alternative
to what they're using now, then you can't say that what they're using
now is deprecated.

rday

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