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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs: simplify vfs_path_lookup
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> vfs_path_lookup is only used to lookup mount points.  So drop the dentry
> parameter that is always set to mnt->mnt_root, remove the unused export
> and rename the function to mount_path_lookup.

NAK.  It's a general-purpose API and simplifications are not worth bothering
with.