On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:28:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. It's really no problem to get my bug fixes merged, and keep the exported symbol around on a deprecation schedule. It doesn't need to be held up by Patches to rip the dir cache out of the filesystems. -- 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
