The patch titled symlink nesting level change has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is symlink-nesting-level-change.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: symlink nesting level change From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It's way past time to bump it to 8. Everyone had been warned - for months now. RH kernels have had this for more than a year. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/namei.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/namei.h~symlink-nesting-level-change include/linux/namei.h --- a/include/linux/namei.h~symlink-nesting-level-change +++ a/include/linux/namei.h @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct open_intent { struct file *file; }; -enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 }; +enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 }; struct nameidata { struct dentry *dentry; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are slab-leaks3-default-y.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html