diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CellUtil.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CellUtil.java
index 3ddfc8e..75b086a 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CellUtil.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/CellUtil.java
@@ -500,6 +500,16 @@ public final class CellUtil {
/**
* @param cell
* @return Estimate of the cell size in bytes.
+ * @deprecated please use estimatedSerializedSizeOf(Cell)
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ public static int estimatedSizeOf(final Cell cell) {
+ return estimatedSerializedSizeOf(cell);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * @param cell
+ * @return Estimate of the cell size in bytes.
*/
public static int estimatedSerializedSizeOf(final Cell cell) {
// If a KeyValue, we can give a good estimate of size.