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Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:08:02 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:15:56PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Add functions forwarding from the old names to the new ones so we
> don't need to change any callers.

Independent of the usefulness of the interface (I'll let other comment,
but you defintively want to talk to Al Viro), adding a second interface
for only 17 callers total is a bad idea.  Just switch the existing
interface to pass flags.