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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:18:39 -0500
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like, the other day Vivek Goyal mumbled:
> 
> Now with distros adopting kexce-tools, I am in for maintaining the backward
> compatibility as far as possible. Putting a note in the code is good that
> down the line, get rid of this code.

Perhaps scheduling it as an entry in 

    Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

just so people (distros) can plan around it?

jdl