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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:46:06 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> Comments?  Boilerplate removal follows (22 files changed, 45 insertions(+),
> 120 deletions(-)), but it's *not* for immediate merge; it's really completely
> untested.

Looks ok to me. Historically, the more things we can check at the VFS
layer, the better.

                  Linus