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On Thursday 05 August 2004 16:26, Peter Wang wrote:
> I'm thinking of going all out and deprecating all of these:
>
> timer_can_simulate_retrace()
> timer_simulate_retrace()
> timer_is_using_retrace()
> retrace_proc
>
> The retrace simulation stuff is tied very closely to DOS and VGA/ModeX
> resolutions, and only works in pure DOS with VGA/ModeX. Very few people
> will miss them.
I think you're probably right, and I'm ok with deprecating some outdated
parts of the API.
> retrace_count would be left alone as too many things use it. It's not
> too bad, if you just think of it as an every increasing counter with a
> misleading name.
In that case, I would propose to change the name to something sensible and
provide a backward compatibility define, personally.
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