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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: export symbol 'getname' and 'putname'
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:31:10 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:27:11AM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote:
> > Nak on exporting symbols for broken staging code.  Please get rid of
> > the ioctls looking up path names in horrible ways in the lustre code.
> 
> For a reference, is there a good example of a non-horrible way to look up a pathname?

Just dont do it from an ioctl, it's got an fd parameter for a reason.