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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Remove
	security_inode_post_create/mkdir/symlink/mknod hooks
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:41:45 -0700
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* Stephen Smalley (sds@tycho.nsa.gov) wrote:
> This patch removes the inode_post_create/mkdir/mknod/symlink LSM hooks
> as they are obsoleted by the new inode_init_security hook that enables
> atomic inode security labeling.  If anyone sees any reason to retain these hooks,
> please speak now.  Also, is anyone using the post_rename/link hooks; if not,
> those could also be removed.

Please remove post_rename.  The dentry args are garbage anyway.

thanks,
-chris