On Wed 2007-02-21 00:12:28, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > 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.
It probably never will. Some hardware is so obsolete that noone will care :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/