From: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
To: Felix Poludov <Felixp@ami.com>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: edk2 interface deprecation policy
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:56:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B09F4AD1-7C19-4FA0-9D12-63054970D357@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9333E191E0D52B4999CE63A99BA663A00302B63C30@atlms1.us.megatrends.com>
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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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-30 14:00 edk2 interface deprecation policy Felix Poludov
2017-11-30 16:56 ` Andrew Fish [this message]
2017-11-30 22:12 ` Felix Poludov
2017-12-01 1:51 ` Gao, Liming
2017-12-01 2:27 ` Ni, Ruiyu
2017-12-01 2:42 ` Zeng, Star
2017-12-01 12:01 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-12-01 2:28 ` Zeng, Star
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