Re: [PATCH 5/9] Remove unused %*pE[achnops] formats

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 06:03:33 EST


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 01:01:41PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:44:29PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The [achnops] are confusing, and in practice the only one anyone seems
> > to need is the bare %*pE.
> >
> > I think some set of modifiers here might actually be useful, but the
> > ones we have are confusing and unused, so let's just toss these out and
> > then rethink what we might want to add back later.
>
> Have you evaluated potential users of this API. Do they need anything of the
> existing functionality?
>
> mangle_path()
> tomoyo_print_bprm()
> tomoyo_scan_bprm()
> tomoyo_environ()
> tomoyo_encode2()
> tomoyo_const_part_length()
>
> Maybe there are more, I didn't check it carefully.

This is comment basically to the absent cover letter, means to the entire
series.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko