On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:25:33PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Right, I depreated it, making it an easy backport. Your next patch > and then removing it completely would be the next step. I don't see much of a point in keeping it. What your new version of d_validate does is exactly what the two only callers do as a fallback. Keeping it like that just means we search through d_subdirs another time when the lookup fails. No need to keep this beats around longer than nessecary. -- 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