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Subject: Re: Where did kernfs go?
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> [kernfs] was removed because it served no discernible purpose and was highly
> suspect from a security standpoint.  What do you need it for?

This seems entirely reasonable to me.  The problem is obviously
that many people were taken by surprise.