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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, 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.
>
> Or did I misunderstand something there?

IMHO, unless you have a fully-functional replacement ready to go, you
can't call something "deprecated" much less "obsolete".  so, yes,
calling isdn4linux "obsolete" is hideously premature.

rday
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