Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this.
If someone besides me cares about more then rhetoric I will be happy
to reconsider and several years is plenty of time to find that out.
I aborted the removal last time precisely because we had not done an
adequate job of warning our users. A printk when we run a program
that uses the binary interface and an long enough interval the warning
makes it to the Enterprise kernels before we remove the interface
should be sufficient.