From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: undeprecate raw driver.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:10:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464770A0.4070809@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705131347450.1144@localhost.localdomain>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2007, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705131239200.942@localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
>>> in short, do *not* remove its "deprecated" status. rather, remove its
>>> "obsolete" status and *make* it deprecated.
>> it is deprecated and obsolete.
>
> no, it's not. and, trust me, no one on this list wants me to have to
> explain all that again. :-)
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."
Everybody understands the meaning of /that/.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 16:32 Dave Jones
2007-05-13 16:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 16:43 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-13 16:46 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 17:34 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-13 17:56 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 20:06 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 20:24 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-13 21:40 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 20:10 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-13 21:49 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-05-13 22:42 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-13 23:01 ` Bob Johnston
2007-05-14 11:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-14 13:53 ` Bob Johnston
2007-05-14 14:07 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-15 2:47 ` David Schwartz
2007-05-14 13:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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