Re: Post-halloween doc updates.

From: Paul Dickson
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 10:36:55 EST


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:25:08 +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:19:47 +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Deprecated/obsolete features.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > - devfs has been obsoleted in favour of udev (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)
>
> s/has been obsoleted/will be olsoleted some day/
>
> many devices need to be added to sysfs,
> before udev+sysfs can replace devfs.

So the correct term should be deprecated rather than obsoleted. Which can
be taken to mean "please which switch when possible".

-Paul

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