On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:41:45PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Hi Al, > > Please pull from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git readlink > > This is a rework of the readlink cleanup patchset. Now readlink(2) does the > following: > > - if i_op->readlink() is non-NULL (only proc and afs mountpoints for now) then > it calls that; > - otherwise call i_op->get_link(); > - signature of ->readlink() now matches that of ->get_link(); > > This is against the #misc branch (the stats look better that way ;) I'm still not sure what does "vfs: convert ->readlink to same signature as ->get_link" buy us. If anything, the result appears to be more complex - you make freeing that buffer delayed (and introduce a dynamically allocated buffer in one case that didn't use it)... -- 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
