On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 11:44 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > When will/can we get rid of them? > Old (doh) kernels, and new versions of stable kernels will keep on having > them for the next +10 years. > > To me, these[*] filenames are more like a user-visible API, which should > not be changed without given consideration.
Yup.
