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

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Message-ID: <20150422063130.GC24738@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:31:30 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: export symbol 'getname' and 'putname'

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:53:11PM -0700, 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.

I agree with Christoph, we shouldn't be doing this.  Let's fix lustre
"properly", which should be possible, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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