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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 worse.
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