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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2009-11-20 16:08:56 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-11 11:24:54 -0800 |
| commit | 832b6af198aefe6034310e124594cc8b833c0ef9 (patch) | |
| tree | 853eec8f7449dd7fc51c6d4c9b70ea44b81cf0d9 /include/linux/namei.h | |
| parent | a16bbc3430ed94b543222f4c8ef68025f8493e93 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-832b6af198aefe6034310e124594cc8b833c0ef9.tar.gz lwn-832b6af198aefe6034310e124594cc8b833c0ef9.zip | |
sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand
By teaching sysfs_revalidate to hide a dentry for
a sysfs_dirent if the sysfs_dirent has been renamed,
and by teaching sysfs_lookup to return the original
dentry if the sysfs dirent has been renamed. I can
show the results of renames correctly without having to
update the dcache during the directory rename.
This massively simplifies the rename logic allowing a lot
of weird sysfs special cases to be removed along with
a lot of now unnecesary helper code.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/namei.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index ec0f607b364a..028946750289 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ extern struct file *nameidata_to_filp(struct nameidata *nd, int flags); extern void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *); extern struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *, struct dentry *, int); -extern struct dentry *lookup_one_noperm(const char *, struct dentry *); extern int follow_down(struct path *); extern int follow_up(struct path *); |