linux-kernel - Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

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Date:	Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:14:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!


On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote:
>Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> given the possible
>> interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now,
>> maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both
>> EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?).
>
>In theory maybe, for communication purposes perhaps rather not.

devfs would have been a good starting point for
EXPERIMENTAL && (DECPREATED || OBSOLETE).

>The reasoning why a feature is deprecated will typically include the
>gotchas which caused the feature to be considered experimental, if such
>gotchas still apply.


	Jan
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