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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] kernel: get rid of *_ptr_validate
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:21:08 +0100
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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..