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From: Paul Dickson <dickson@permanentmail.com>
To: Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Post-halloween doc updates.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:35:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031083515.07f92837.dickson@permanentmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.10.31.12.25.07.551785@dungeon.inka.de>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-30 14:15 Post-halloween doc updates Dave Jones
2003-10-30 15:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-30 15:18   ` Dave Jones
2003-10-30 16:55     ` John Bradford
2003-10-30 15:15 ` Holger Schurig
2003-10-30 15:19   ` Dave Jones
2003-10-30 16:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-30 17:27   ` Chris Wright
2003-10-30 18:38   ` Dave Jones
2003-10-30 18:44     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-30 18:53       ` Dave Jones
2003-10-30 17:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-30 19:08 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2003-10-30 22:16 ` bd
2003-10-31  1:32   ` Gene Heskett
2003-10-31 12:50   ` Thierry Vignaud
2003-10-30 23:11 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-10-31  0:16   ` Dave Jones
2003-10-31  2:14     ` John Levon
2003-10-31  2:30       ` Dave Jones
2003-10-31  7:34 ` ide-scsi is working [was: Post-halloween doc updates.] Nuno Silva
2003-10-31 13:42   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-31 12:25 ` Post-halloween doc updates Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-10-31 15:35   ` Paul Dickson [this message]
2003-10-31 15:06 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-10-31 15:24   ` Russell King
2003-10-31 16:00     ` Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
2003-10-31 16:03     ` Ian Soboroff
2003-10-31 16:14       ` Russell King
2003-10-31 17:56       ` Michael Clark
2003-11-10 23:43       ` bill davidsen
2003-11-11  1:09         ` Rob Landley
2003-11-10 14:11     ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-31 15:53 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-31 23:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2003-11-01  7:44 ` Sam Ravnborg

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