> 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.
Nope. Can't do that.. The whole 'remove it' thread was prompted because
some improvements in 2.3 broke this and made it harder to do.
I'd suggest that we remove it in 2.3, and put warning in 2.2 at mount
time. (And per-access if the users explicitly turns it on with mount
options).
When we go to 2.4 we can decide if we have to add back in the legacy hack.
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