The patch titled
Subject: proc: remove proc_tty_ldisc variable
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
proc-remove-proc_tty_ldisc-variable.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: proc: remove proc_tty_ldisc variable
/proc/tty/ldisc appear to be unused as a directory and
it had been always that way.
But it is userspace visible thing.
Cowardly remove only in-kernel variable holding it.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/proc_tty.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/proc_tty.c~proc-remove-proc_tty_ldisc-variable fs/proc/proc_tty.c
--- a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c~proc-remove-proc_tty_ldisc-variable
+++ a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
/*
* The /proc/tty directory inodes...
*/
-static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_tty_ldisc, *proc_tty_driver;
+static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_tty_driver;
/*
* This is the handler for /proc/tty/drivers
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ void __init proc_tty_init(void)
{
if (!proc_mkdir("tty", NULL))
return;
- proc_tty_ldisc = proc_mkdir("tty/ldisc", NULL);
+ proc_mkdir("tty/ldisc", NULL); /* Preserved: it's userspace visible */
/*
* /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact character counts for
* serial links which is just too easy to abuse for inferring
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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