linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET v2] ->follow_link() without dropping from RCU mode

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:57:39 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2] ->follow_link() without dropping from RCU mode


Hi Al,
 thanks a lot for this.  I particularly like that you renamed
 "follow_link" which didn't really describe what the function did any
 more.

 Apart from the changelog comment in 4/11 which starts
   "It was to needed for ..."

 I can't fault anything.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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