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SubjectRe: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel
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>>>>> "Werner" == Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch> writes:
>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

Werner> It would be nice though if you could follow the usual phase-out
Werner> procedure: flag it as obsolete and printk a warning, then remove it
Werner> and printk an explanation, and finally remove the explanation.

Alexander> It's a bit late for that - we could do it in 2.1 easily,
Alexander> but now... FAT is already broken ;-/

Not necessarily. The warning can go in the next 2.2 version noting
that the auto-translation will be gone in 2.4. The next 2.3 can then
printk the explanation, leaving 2.5 to remove that last vestige.

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