Re: [RFC] Summarizing deprecations

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 30 2014 - 23:01:07 EST


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 04:04:05AM +0200, Sune Mølgaard wrote:
>
> As a user first, and only secondly a developer, I'd like my HW to work,
> and finding fully supported gear can still be hard if not impossible,
> but I imagine that if we had a central place to list deprecations (and,
> possibly, "victims" of them), a lot of grief could be avoided by simply
> pointing vendors to that central resource and saying "here is what you
> need to know for your driver to keep working - now get to it".

We had that. It was in the Documentation directory called "feature-removal.txt".
But that was always out of date and caused lots of unnecessary conflicts
by the few that added stuff to it that it became more of a pain to have than
it was worth. And commit 9c0ece069b32e8e122aea71aa47181c10eb85ba7 nuked it.

-- Steve

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