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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] kernel: get rid of *_ptr_validate
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:21:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116102108.GB22329@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116062436.GB3242@amd>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:24:36PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> This is a nasty ugly and error prone API. It's sole user, dcache, could not
> get it right so there is roughly zero chance that anything else will.

Yes, please get rid of this junk..


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16  6:23 [patch] fs: fix d_validate Nick Piggin
2010-11-16  6:24 ` [patch] kernel: get rid of *_ptr_validate Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 10:21   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-16 10:20 ` [patch] fs: fix d_validate Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-16 10:25   ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 16:28     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-17  3:51       ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 16:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-17  3:49   ` Nick Piggin

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