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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:46:48 +0300
From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] non-recursive link_path_walk() and reducing stack
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On 04/21/2015 06:45 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure we can kill it. I had the plan to rip it out during this merge window
>> along with other broken UML stuff but I was too late to ask on the UML mailinglist
>> if someone is using it (which I really doubt).
>> So, let's kill it with v4.2.
> 
> Let's do it.  Then ->put_link() is left in an interesting situation - *all*
> instances only use the 'cookie' argument...

A future user of inode or anything else can embed that in the cookie
anyway.

Just my $0.017
Boaz

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