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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702201820400.11849@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:23:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	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 Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Am 20.02.2007 23:52 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > "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.
>
> So, to take a specific example (incidentally the one I am
> personally interested in):
>
> isdn4linux (CONFIG_ISDN_I4L), currently marked as "obsolete"
> (which is undoubtedly incorrect), would not even qualify as
> "deprecated" as long as its successor, the CAPI 2.0 subsystem
> (CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) doesn't support all the hardware currently
> supported by old i4l.
>
> Or did I misunderstand something there?

IMHO, unless you have a fully-functional replacement ready to go, you
can't call something "deprecated" much less "obsolete".  so, yes,
calling isdn4linux "obsolete" is hideously premature.

rday
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