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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] xstat: Provide a mechanism to gather extra results
 for [f]xstat() [ver #6]
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:51:40 -0400
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As mentioned before this is total overkill.  The request/respond flags
together with the buffer size already provide enough ways to extent
the structure in a backwards compatible way if needed.