With the removal of the pktcdvd driver, there are no in-kernel users of
the devnode callback in struct block_device_operations, so it can be
safely removed. If it is needed for new block drivers in the future, it
can be brought back.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/genhd.c | 11 -----------
include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 0f9769db2de8..1a2f3fa5678f 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1193,21 +1193,10 @@ struct class block_class = {
.dev_uevent = block_uevent,
};
-static char *block_devnode(struct device *dev, umode_t *mode,
- kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
-{
- struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);
-
- if (disk->fops->devnode)
- return disk->fops->devnode(disk, mode);
- return NULL;
-}
-
const struct device_type disk_type = {
.name = "disk",
.groups = disk_attr_groups,
.release = disk_release,
- .devnode = block_devnode,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 891f8cbcd043..b767c6b86856 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1413,7 +1413,6 @@ struct block_device_operations {
void (*swap_slot_free_notify) (struct block_device *, unsigned long);
int (*report_zones)(struct gendisk *, sector_t sector,
unsigned int nr_zones, report_zones_cb cb, void *data);
- char *(*devnode)(struct gendisk *disk, umode_t *mode);
/* returns the length of the identifier or a negative errno: */
int (*get_unique_id)(struct gendisk *disk, u8 id[16],
enum blk_unique_id id_type);
--
2.38.1
