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Date:   Tue, 3 Sep 2019 06:50:24 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: "fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status" causes boot
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Not sure what would be the best way to do it...  I don't mind breaking
> the out-of-tree modules, whatever their license is; what I would rather
> avoid is _quiet_ breaking of such.

Any out of tree module running against an upstream kernel will need
a recompile for a new version anyway.  So I would not worry about it
at all.