linux-kernel - Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

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Message-ID: <4633AE13.2060300@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:26:59 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: random thoughts on DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE

I wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> there's stuff marked
>> "EXPERIMENTAL" that appears to have been in the kernel for years.
> 
> It is sometimes true for years, although that's not the goal for
> software in mainline.

Because EXPERIMENTAL does not mean "is subject to currently ongoing
experiments" but rather "is unfinished code which is known to work
incorrectly sometimes".
-- 
Stefan Richter
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