linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:27:15 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
>
> In afs documentation is written that you need to write to these files. See:

Well, but the afs documentation is clearly wrong, since the
"documented" procedure doesn't actually *work*.

So I don't think "it's documented" is a very strong argument.
Documentation is as useful as used toilet paper, if clearly nobody has
ever done what was "documented".

                     Linus
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