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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:44:50 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace
To:     Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:53 AM Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, Linus, these changes are not the refactoring you were talking
> about, but I plan to try to do such a refactoring in the my next
> patchset.

Heh. Ok, I'm not saying these patches are pretty, and looking up the
namespace thing is a bit subtle, but it's certainly prettier than the
existing odd "create a new ctl_table entry because of field abuse".

So this certainly looks like an improvement from a quick look.

              Linus