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

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Message-ID: <46D93544.2030308@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:47:48 +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: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

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.

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.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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