Re: Is it OK to export symbols 'getname' and 'putname'?

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Apr 22 2015 - 01:50:23 EST


On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 05:55:07PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Is that a good idea to export these symbols, given that lustre may be
> > the only user?
> Yes, it is a good idea.

It was if lustre was in core code and these idiotic ioctls were something
we had to live with.

But lustre is in staging code, and we shouldn't export symbols just for
shitty staging code.

Intead lustre should clean up their mess and get rid of these ioctls
that do path name lookups.
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