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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:11:38PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> I'll repropose the patchset with __deprecated as you suggested.  Thanks!

And what Dave and I are saying is that we'll either need to do our on
loop to avoid the deprecation warning, or the use of the deprecated
function will probably be used forever...

	      	       	     	 - Ted
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