linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: export symbol 'getname' and 'putname'

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Message-ID: <498CF73A-6CB4-4C17-8953-B4AAA855A3DF@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:27:11 +0000
From:	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	"<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: export symbol 'getname' and 'putname'

On Apr 22, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Nak on exporting symbols for broken staging code.  Please get rid of
> the ioctls looking up path names in horrible ways in the lustre code.

For a reference, is there a good example of a non-horrible way to look up a pathname?

Thanks.

Bye,
   Oleg--
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