From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161070AbXBTXWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:22:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161068AbXBTXWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:22:07 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:40155 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161070AbXBTXWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:22:06 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 74.102.209.62 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:20:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: [PATCH] deprecated/obsolete patch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org here's a slightly revised wording, if that makes it clearer: diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f977086..d5ab6ec 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ config EXPERIMENTAL , and in the kernel source). - This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are - drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are - scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. + At the moment, this option also makes obsolete drivers available, + but such drivers really should be removed from the EXPERIMENTAL + category and added to either DEPRECATED or OBSOLETE, depending + on their status. Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires @@ -40,6 +41,29 @@ config EXPERIMENTAL you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. +config DEPRECATED + bool "Prompt for deprecated code/drivers" + default y + ---help--- + Code that has been tagged as "deprecated" generally still works and + is probably still supported, but there is already a newer and better + alternative available and you should seriously consider switching to + that newer alternative. + + Code that is marked as deprecated for quite some time also has a + tendency to eventually become "obsolete," at which point it will + probably be removed entirely from the kernel. + +config OBSOLETE + bool "Prompt for obsolete code/drivers" + default n + ---help--- + Code that has been tagged as "obsolete" is no longer officially + supported and shouldn't play a part in any normal build. Obsolete + code might already be scheduled for removal as well, so you might + want to check the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt for + any proposed removal dates. + config BROKEN bool -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================