> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Support for CRLF<->LF translation in the kernel must die.
>
> Sounds fair to me. I added it, because in the early days of Linux, we
> were much more dependent on easy access to text data from DOS. This
> has changed, and nowadays, most documents under Win/DOS are binary
> anyway.
>
> It would be nice though if you could follow the usual phase-out
> procedure: flag it as obsolete and printk a warning, then remove it
> and printk an explanation, and finally remove the explanation.
sounds reasonable. so put the warning in 2.2.11 (and wait if anyone
ever will speak up;) and remove it from 2.3.x _now_...
Harald
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