Re: edk2 interface deprecation policy

[Felix Poludov <Felixp@ami.com>]

I agree. It would be beneficial to have a mailing list discussion on how to deal with the deprecated item.
In some cases it would make sense to tag an interface as deprecated, but keep in the code base for a while (6 month?) before actually deleting it.

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To: Felix Poludov
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Subject: Re: [edk2] edk2 interface deprecation policy

Felix,

I don't think we have one....

Adding new interfaces does not impact the downstream projects, but depreciating interface can break stuff. Seems like it might at least be a good idea to have a depreciation discussion on the mailing  list. I'm open to other suggestions....

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Felix Poludov <Felixp@ami.com> wrote:
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> Does edk2 have a policy regarding deprecation of interface definition headers?
> I can see that definition of the UgaDraw protocol that was deprecated years ago (I believe in UEFI 2.0) is still part of the code base; yet, definition of the SMM Communication ACPI Table that was deprecated this year in UEFI 2.6B has already been removed.
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