From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Sune Mølgaard" <sune@molgaard.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Summarizing deprecations
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 23:00:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140531030055.GA8362@home.goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53893895.3040202@molgaard.org>
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 04:04:05AM +0200, Sune Mølgaard wrote:
>
> As a user first, and only secondly a developer, I'd like my HW to work,
> and finding fully supported gear can still be hard if not impossible,
> but I imagine that if we had a central place to list deprecations (and,
> possibly, "victims" of them), a lot of grief could be avoided by simply
> pointing vendors to that central resource and saying "here is what you
> need to know for your driver to keep working - now get to it".
We had that. It was in the Documentation directory called "feature-removal.txt".
But that was always out of date and caused lots of unnecessary conflicts
by the few that added stuff to it that it became more of a pain to have than
it was worth. And commit 9c0ece069b32e8e122aea71aa47181c10eb85ba7 nuked it.
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-31 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-31 2:04 [RFC] Summarizing deprecations Sune Mølgaard
2014-05-31 2:21 ` Greg KH
2014-05-31 2:56 ` Sune Mølgaard
2014-05-31 3:37 ` Greg KH
2014-06-02 23:12 ` Sune Mølgaard
2014-06-03 0:15 ` Greg KH
2014-05-31 3:00 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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