Robert P. J. Day wrote: > p.s. before we get into this again where everyone thinks they know > what they're talking about, i suggest consulting the official > definitions of those two terms as defined at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/conform.html: > > Deprecated: > ----------
[...] > Obsolete: > -------- > > "An obsolete element or attribute is one for which there is no > guarantee of support by a user agent." Please quote W3C's entire definition of their notion of obsolete: "An obsolete element or attribute is one for which there is no guarantee of support by a user agent. Obsolete elements are no longer defined in the specification, but are listed for historical purposes in the changes section of the reference manual." > there. see the difference? why is this so difficult to grok? [...] If you apply W3C's term "obsolete" 1:1 to kernel features, then it would read: "An obsolete feature is one for which there is no guarantee of support by a randomly picked kernel release. Obsolete features are no longer implemented in this release, but are listed for historical purposes in Documentation/ABI/removed/." Except that the term "obsolete" is already used differently in the context of Linux kernel features; see Documentation/ABI/README. Also, you say "the official definitions of those terms" were defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/conform.html. That's not quite true. What you find there are the definitions of those terms as used in the HTML 4 specification. Nothing more. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/
