The define has a comment from Nick Piggin from 2007:

 /* For backwards compat. Remove me quickly. */

I guess 9 years should not be too hurried sense of 'quickly' even for
kernel measures.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>