Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY handler

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 03:08:23 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:41:22AM -0400, green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It uses getname in unsafe manner and since it's to deal with corrupted
> or inconsistent filesystem, we are probably better to deal with
> it from lfsck anyway.
I am not sure but will it not break the userspace? There may be some
application who is using this ioctl.
And I think you missed removing the #define LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY from
lustre_user.h which will not be used anymore.

regards
sudip
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