Re: [PATCH 04/79] ext4: split inode_operations for encrypted symlinks off the rest

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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:01:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ugh. Could we aim to *not* add code like this.
> 
> Instead, just declare (but don't define) the
> ext4_encrypted_symlink_inode_operations thing, so that *if* somebody
> uses it they get a link error, and make sure that
> "ext4_encrypted_inode()" ends up always returning zero when encryption
> isn't enabled, so that the compiler will actually optimize the whole
> thing out (which apparently is already the case, judging by the
> build-bug-on.

Sure, no problem.  BUILD_BUG_ON was used only because it triggered an
error earlier, I simply forgot to rip it out afterwards.
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