On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:27, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> > Is that really the consensus on these definitions? I thought it was > > more or less the opposite: > > > > * DEPRECATED == no (complete) replacement available yet, but it has > > been decided that this code is less than optimal and > > alternatives should be preferred just to clarify this, that's not my idea of "deprecated". "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. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/