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> Sure it's hard, but we can at least try. If we put this patch in we'll
> be breaking backward compatibility simply in order to beautify the
> kexec-tools code a little.

Agreed.  

> I think the best option is just to add a note somewhere in the kexec
> sources that we can remove that code sometime in the future.

Agreed.  The code being removed is hacky, but mostly harmless.  

Mikey