Re: [patch 1/4] Introduce pathput

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:07:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > * Switch from path_release_on_umount(nd) to pathput_on_umount(&nd->path).
> > 
> > * Rename dput_path() to pathput_conditional().
> 
> The introduction of pathput is fine we me.  The removal of path_release
> doesn't make much sense.  We have tons of invocations of exactly that
> patter, and having keeping path_release for that makes a lot of sense.

After some private discussion on this I think I was overruled, so feel
free to keep that change.  Al also suggested to rename the things
to path_get/path_put which makes sense.

Any chance you could respin the series with the review comments addressed
so that there is a chance to get it into 2.6.24?
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