linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] kill do_filp

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Message-ID: <20070927191047.GA1545@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:10:47 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, miklos@...redi.hu, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] kill do_filp_open()

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:08:23PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> This kills off the almost empty do_filp_open().  However,
> let's keep filp_open() around.  It does the nameidata allocation
> on the stack, and also adds the AT_FDCWD argument.  I think
> that's enough to keep it around.

So why would we not want to allocate the nameidata in open_namei?

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