On Sun, 13 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 13 2007 12:32, Dave Jones wrote: > > >Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this > >driver seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as > >it has existing users who may not be in a position to migrate their > >apps > > At least keep the "it's obsolete" Kconfig description. We don't want > new users/projects to jump on /dev/raw.
i just *know* this is a mistake, but i'm going to take one more shot at distinguishing between deprecated and obsolete. as i understand it, the raw driver is *deprecated*. that is, it's still there, it's still supported, people are still using it but its use is *seriously* discouraged and everyone should be trying to move off of it at their earliest possible convenience. that is *not* the same as "obsolete" which should mean that that feature is dead, dead, DEAD and *no one* should be using it anymore. yes, i realize it sounds like splitting hairs, but it's this malleable definition of "deprecated" that's causing all of this trouble in the first place -- the fact that the raw driver is currently listed as "obsolete" when it is, in fact, only deprecated. in short, do *not* remove its "deprecated" status. rather, remove its "obsolete" status and *make* it 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/
