We don't have a routine called namei() anymore since at least 2.3.x, and the comment is just totally out of sync with the current lookup logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2007-02-25 11:54:58.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2007-02-25 11:55:08.000000000 +0100 @@ -1310,17 +1310,6 @@ return ERR_PTR(-EACCES); } -/* - * namei() - * - * is used by most simple commands to get the inode of a specified name. - * Open, link etc use their own routines, but this is enough for things - * like 'chmod' etc. - * - * namei exists in two versions: namei/lnamei. The only difference is - * that namei follows links, while lnamei does not. - * SMP-safe - */ int fastcall __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags, struct nameidata *nd) { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html