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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:57:18 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs updates for 6.8
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 05:47:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, because the whole idea of "let me mark something deprecated and
> then not just remove it" is GARBAGE.
> 
> If somebody wants to deprecate something, it is up to *them* to finish
> the job. Not annoy thousands of other developers with idiotic
> warnings.

What would be nice is something that warned about _new_ uses being
added.  ie checkpatch.  Let's at least not make the problem worse.