On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] 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