On Sun, 13 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:Correct. Like the weird lady next door who fancies you, it's old, it's ugly, but it's not likely to go away any time soon.
On May 13 2007 12:32, Dave Jones wrote:
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, thisAt least keep the "it's obsolete" Kconfig description. We don't want
driver seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as
it has existing users who may not be in a position to migrate their
apps
new users/projects to jump on /dev/raw.
i just *know* this is a mistake, but i'm going to take one more shot
at distinguishing between deprecated and obsolete.
as i understand it, the raw driver is *deprecated*. that is, it's
still there, it's still supported, people are still using it but its
use is *seriously* discouraged and everyone should be trying to move
off of it at their earliest possible convenience.
that is *not* the same as "obsolete" which should mean that that
feature is dead, dead, DEAD and *no one* should be using it anymore.
yes, i realize it sounds like splitting hairs, but it's this malleable
definition of "deprecated" that's causing all of this trouble in the
first place -- the fact that the raw driver is currently listed as
"obsolete" when it is, in fact, only deprecated.
in short, do *not* remove its "deprecated" status. rather, remove its
"obsolete" status and *make* it deprecated.