Subject: Re: nameidata in VFS_MOUNT
To: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/01/2007 01:15:29
On Tue Jul 31 2007 at 12:49:55 -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:31:32PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > On Tue Jul 31 2007 at 12:24:54 -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:48:29PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > > > Would anyone cry if the nameidata parameter in VFS_MOUNT() had an
> > > > unfortunate "accident" and went missing?  It's currently totally unused
> > > > (if you don't count storage space abuse by the callees).
> > > 
> > > Does cvs blame say anything about it?
> > 
> > 386bsd, no use (other than storage abuse) in ufs or nfs.  Those are
> > naturally the first places I checked before bothering the list.
> 
> Probably kill it then. If we ever find we need it, we'll put it back.

Done.  But if anyone has any insights, I'm still curious.

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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