Re: [PATCH] stop using uio in the readlink code

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:41:42PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Do we really need to copy this code? I guess it doesn't really
> matter that much but it would be nice not to have to copy an
> exported vfs function just because we don't have a dentry...

I was wondering whether to send a patch to fix and export the VFS
function afterwards, but I really don't want a an xfs patch like
this to have a VFS change depency to start with.  Especially as I
want to change the name of the helper in namei.c aswell - the vfs_
prefix is completely wrong.