Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2007-02-21 00:12:28, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 20.02.2007 23:52 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > "deprecated" means that there *is* a complete replacement available
> > *right now* and you should consider switching to it.
> > 
> > if you can't offer someone a completely functional, better alternative
> > to what they're using now, then you can't say that what they're using
> > now is deprecated.
> 
> So, to take a specific example (incidentally the one I am
> personally interested in):
> 
> isdn4linux (CONFIG_ISDN_I4L), currently marked as "obsolete"
> (which is undoubtedly incorrect), would not even qualify as
> "deprecated" as long as its successor, the CAPI 2.0 subsystem
> (CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) doesn't support all the hardware currently
> supported by old i4l.

It probably never will. Some hardware is so obsolete that noone will
care :-).
									Pavel
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