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

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

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Am 25.02.2007 11:42 schrieb 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 :-).

s/supported by/in active use with/

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