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Message-ID: <20251209222901.1693280-1-safinaskar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:29:00 +0300
From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@...il.com>
To: cedric.blancher@...il.com,
	Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>
Cc: lwn@....net,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	news@...ronix.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: d_genocide()? What about d_holodomor(), d_massmurder(), d_execute_warcrimes()? Re: [PATCH 15/20] d_genocide(): move the extern into fs/internal.h

Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@...il.com>:
> > +extern void d_genocide(struct dentry *);
> 
> Seriously, who came up with THAT name? "Genocide" is not a nice term,
> not even if you ignore political correctness.
> Or what will be next? d_holodomor()? d_massmurder()? d_execute_warcrimes()?

Good news! :) Term "genocide" finally gone from kernel some days ago!

In this patchset: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7cd122b55283d3ceef71a5b723ccaa03a72284b4
( https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251118051604.3868588-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk/ ).

-- 
Askar Safin