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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709010648530.32589@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:52:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that > does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike > experimental/broken. and, as i've said before, i disagree. while one might debate what those words *mean*, or which features should be tagged thusly, i think there's a measurable value to be able to, with one mouse click, say you want to do a build test on the kernel which does not incorporate anything deemed deprecated and/or obsolete. if you don't agree, however, no amount of explaining that on my part is going to change your opinion. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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