On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:29:29AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > "h...@lst.de" <h...@lst.de> writes: > > > Jens, any opinion? I'd like to remove it too, but I fear it might > > break things. We could deprecate it first with a warning when read > > and then remove it a few releases down the road. > > I know of several apps that check this variable (as opposed to the > ioctl).
The above was in reference to both methods..