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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] non-recursive link_path_walk() and reducing
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:45:04 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:

> I'm pretty sure we can kill it. I had the plan to rip it out during this merge window
> along with other broken UML stuff but I was too late to ask on the UML mailinglist
> if someone is using it (which I really doubt).
> So, let's kill it with v4.2.

Let's do it.  Then ->put_link() is left in an interesting situation - *all*
instances only use the 'cookie' argument...