Perhaps I was reading too much into Linus' mail, but I read it as
"don't obsolete the old interface and introduce a new one just because
of some sense of aesthetics".
ie. it's not a to-be-obsoleted interface.
I think we're long past this being a productive thread, though.
Rusty.
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