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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove kdevname() before someone starts using it again
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> partition_name()

That function would appear to be

a) slow

b) leaky

c) racy and

d) plain wrong if dev_t's can get recycled.

Can we at least give it a lock? :(