linux-kernel - Re: undeprecate raw driver.

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Message-ID: <46479440.3060305@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 00:42:08 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: undeprecate raw driver.

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 13.05.2007 22:10 schrieb Stefan Richter:
>> So why don't we simply say:
>>
>>   - "Users of feature A are urged to migrate to alternative B."
>>   - "Feature C will be removed in February 2038."
> 
> Because that's too long to add to a Kconfig tag line.
> You need a terse label there.

Then put "DEPRECATED" there, because you deprecate the enabling of the
option.

However, actual users of such a kernel option need the full explanation
of what's wrong with the option in order to decide whether to switch it
off.  The terse label alone is *insufficient*.   It's insufficient even
if you develop a scheme with two or more different labels for different
flavors of deprecation.  In fact, generically defined finer-grained
flavors of "deprecated" will be too fine-grained to be sensibly used in
/real/ feature removal processes.

It doesn't lead us anywhere to discuss about deprecation on an abstract
level.  Discuss concrete features (like the raw driver) with the people
who used that feature --- only then you get to know how to proceed with
that feature appropriately.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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