From aa1845e813e764729eed2a4b562a0ec5b91888ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas De Schampheleire Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:54:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] manual: clarify handling of deprecated features Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- docs/manual/appendix.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/appendix.txt b/docs/manual/appendix.txt index 74ee8fd4b8..a83ecea1a7 100644 --- a/docs/manual/appendix.txt +++ b/docs/manual/appendix.txt @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Deprecated features ------------------- The following features are marked as _deprecated_ in Buildroot due to -their status either too old or unmaintained. +them being either too old or unmaintained. They will be removed at +some point, so stop using them. +Each deprecated symbol in kconfig depends on a symbol ++BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx+, which provides an indication of when +the feature can be removed: features will not be removed within the +year following deprecation. For example, a symbol depending on ++BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2013_05+ can be removed from 2014.05 onwards. include::deprecated-list.txt[] -- 2.30.2