From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:14:38 +0300 > if you're really renaming the function, then this patch alone will break > all of the below users. That should all be a single patch, I'm afraid. It would help if you actually read his patches before saying what they might or might not do. He provides a macro in the first patch that provides the old name, and this will get removed at the end.