Re: [PATCH 49/50] mars: generic pre-patch for mars

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 04:36:42PM +0200, Thomas Sch?bel-Theuer wrote:
> However, I probably would have to "borrow" large parts of the
> sys_rmdir() implementation from fs/namei.c (the only real difference
> appears to me that the pathname is not in userspace).
> 
> So, what is worse: copying relatively large pieces of code, or using
> sys_rmdir()?

Most likely you shouldn't do either.  A block driver really should not
be removing directories from the filesystem namespace.

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