Github user jerryshao commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8976#issuecomment-146545328
Yes, as @srowen said, this API is seldom used, and currently we already
marked it as deprecated, also even calling this API will not introduce any
problem, so keeping it is not a big problem. Besides because of Mima problem,
actually you cannot entirely remove this API, so your current solution is still
no better than the existed one.
Also as I said, compared to remove this, reactivating it might be a better
choice, since now it is not difficult to support, also does no harm to the
current code path (I can submit a PR if needed).
Besides here has some discussions about whether to keep this parameter
[SPARK-2089](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2089).
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