Deprecate gst_pad_[sg]et_element_private ?
As discussed many times and as recent patches have shown, the use of that API is not MT safe (see !191 (merged) for example). Generally it is better to go and subclass GstPad for those cases, even if it involves some boilerplate code (though it is not that much now that we have G_DECLARE_ marcos).
Alternatively we could try to add another safe in the same spirit, but tbh I feel that this API is basically a hack to avoid subclassing GstPad :-)