On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:58:03PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > never called by the VFS.  autofs (v4 at least) doesn't use it so now 
> > > always
> > > get a nameidata.  In fact if you look in -mm there's a patch from me that
> > > makes use of that fact.
> > > 
> > 
> > But Will is calling it in a something like a stacking context and autofs 
> > fails to handle it. Hence this discussion.
> 
> No, for current TOT that can't happen.  It could happen for older kernels
> but nothing is doing it in the tree anymore and if anything outside is doing
> it it's fundamentally broken.
> 

Yes. So I should continue with my focus on handling link_path_walk cases 
as all paths should pass through their?

Ian

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