Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > >> DEPRECATED should presumably default to Y; OBSOLETE to n. > > > >crap, now i see what you were getting at -- i forgot to assign > >defaults. i'll resubmit, but i'll wait for anyone to suggest any >

Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> DEPRECATED should presumably default to Y; OBSOLETE to n. > >crap, now i see what you were getting at -- i forgot to assign >defaults. i'll resubmit, but i'll wait for anyone to suggest any >better help content if they have a better idea. Well...

Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > DEPRECATED should presumably default to Y; OBSOLETE to n. crap, now i see what you were getting at -- i forgot to assign defaults. i'll resubmit, but i'll wait for anyone to suggest any better help content if they have a better idea. rday - To unsubs

Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > DEPRECATED should presumably default to Y; OBSOLETE to n. you presume correctly. rday - 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.or

Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: To go along with the EXPERIMENTAL kernel config status, introduce two new states: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- just adding these config variables to init/Kconfig shouldn't affect the current build status, but it w

Re: [PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: To go along with the EXPERIMENTAL kernel config status, introduce two new states: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. I think this is a very good idea. If nothing else, it gives some middle-of-the-roadness to the continual "to remove or not to remove" debate. -hpa -

[PATCH] Introduce two new maturlty levels: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

2007-01-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
To go along with the EXPERIMENTAL kernel config status, introduce two new states: DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- just adding these config variables to init/Kconfig shouldn't affect the current build status, but it will allow developers to s