linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Aufs2 #5 28/29] export lookup functions

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:54:01 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Aufs2 #5 28/29] export lookup functions

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:15AM +0900, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> Christoph Hellwig:
> > Strong NACK to all these exports, no one has any buesiness looking at
> > these.
> 
> Will you tell me why?
> If you have ever discussed exporting lookup_hash(), then please tell me
> its URL or something.
> 
> lookup_hash is necessary for aufs since,

All these are vfs-internal bits, and there is no way we are going to
export them.  aufs does a lot of really weird things like this because
it's doing things in a filesystem that should be done in the VFS.

Just making sure these exports aren't going to accidentally put in if
Greg happens to suck this pile into the staging tree.
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