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

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Message-ID: <46D96EE3.9050101@garzik.org>
Date:	Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:53:39 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	"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!

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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).

Humorous or not, this serves to indicate how synonymous 'deprecated' and 
'obsolete' are.

	Jeff



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