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

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

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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.

Or did I misunderstand something there?

Thanks,
Tilman

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