Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] non-recursive link_path_walk() and reducing stack footprint

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Apr 21 2015 - 11:45:16 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:

> I'm pretty sure we can kill it. I had the plan to rip it out during this merge window
> along with other broken UML stuff but I was too late to ask on the UML mailinglist
> if someone is using it (which I really doubt).
> So, let's kill it with v4.2.

Let's do it. Then ->put_link() is left in an interesting situation - *all*
instances only use the 'cookie' argument...
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