linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous inodes

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Message-ID: <20191015080802.GA16814@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:08:02 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lokeshgidra@...gle.com, nnk@...gle.com, nosh@...gle.com,
        timmurray@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous
 inodes

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:15:56PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Add functions forwarding from the old names to the new ones so we
> don't need to change any callers.

Independent of the usefulness of the interface (I'll let other comment,
but you defintively want to talk to Al Viro), adding a second interface
for only 17 callers total is a bad idea.  Just switch the existing
interface to pass flags.