On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Call it "fallback" or "simple" or something that shows the intent, but > no, I'm not taking patches that introduce a _new_ interface and call > it "deprecated". Put another way: to call something "deprecated", you have to already have the replacement all ready to go. And if you have that, then converting existing code to a deprecated model isn't the way to go. So in neither situation does it make any sense to convert anything to a model that is deprecated. Linus