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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:46:48 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com> To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] non-recursive link_path_walk() and reducing stack footprint On 04/21/2015 06:45 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure we can kill it. I had the plan to rip it out during this merge window >> along with other broken UML stuff but I was too late to ask on the UML mailinglist >> if someone is using it (which I really doubt). >> So, let's kill it with v4.2. > > Let's do it. Then ->put_link() is left in an interesting situation - *all* > instances only use the 'cookie' argument... A future user of inode or anything else can embed that in the cookie anyway. Just my $0.017 Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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