Re: 23.0.60; whitespace.el mishap

[Richard Stallman]

    Well, indeed the old whitespace-buffer had reported
    where the bogus whitespace had happened.

    Instead of reporting, the new whitespace-mode
    displays visually the bogus whitespace.

Ok, we know what the old whitespace-buffer does.
And we know what the new whitespace-mode does.

    Is it ok if the new whitespace-buffer is removed?

What does the new whitespace-buffer do?  How does it differ
from whitespace-mode?

Can you make it provide the features of the old whitespace-buffer?