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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>2B
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > I have no idea how many apps use this ioctl, does anyone have a rough
> > list?
> 
> Add a rate-limited "this feature is deprecated" feature and find out...

Googling for it does show it as being documented and apparently used by a 
few programs, at least...

		Linus