Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] non-recursive link_path_walk() and reducing stack footprint

Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-21T16:46:59Z

On 04/21/2015 06:45 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> 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...

A future user of inode or anything else can embed that in the cookie
anyway.

Just my $0.017
Boaz