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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> Bull shit. Standard policy is currently to keep crude old
> interfaces until no end of time. Here are some examples:

[snip]

Again, standard procedure for removal of user-visible API:
	* next devel and following stable branch - use of that API is
possible but produces a warning
	* devel branch after that - API removed.

The fact that nobody had even started that with procfs is a separate story.
But no matter what user-visible API changes we start now, the earliest point
when the old stuff can be removed is 2.7.

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