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> Linus and the other developers sometimes change function or
structure names in development kernels; this is not done just to
keep everyone on their toes: it reflects a fundamental change
(eg. can no longer be called with interrupts on, or does extra
checks, or doesn't do checks which were caught before). Usually
this is accompanied by a fairly complete note to the linux-kernel
mailing list; search the archive. Simply doing a global replace
on the file usually makes things <I
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