The patch titled
namei.c: remove utterly outdated comment
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nameic-remove-utterly-outdated-comment.patch
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Subject: namei.c: remove utterly outdated comment
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
We don't have a routine called namei() anymore since at least 2.3.x, and
the comment is just totally out of sync with the current lookup logic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 11 -----------
1 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/namei.c~nameic-remove-utterly-outdated-comment fs/namei.c
--- a/fs/namei.c~nameic-remove-utterly-outdated-comment
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -1318,17 +1318,6 @@ access:
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
}
-/*
- * namei()
- *
- * is used by most simple commands to get the inode of a specified name.
- * Open, link etc use their own routines, but this is enough for things
- * like 'chmod' etc.
- *
- * namei exists in two versions: namei/lnamei. The only difference is
- * that namei follows links, while lnamei does not.
- * SMP-safe
- */
int fastcall __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
struct nameidata *nd)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
xfs-use-xfs_get_buf_noaddr-for-iclogs.patch
xfs-stop-using-kmalloc-in-xfs_buf_get_noaddr.patch
simplify-the-stacktrace-code.patch
allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid.patch
fix-quadratic-behavior-of-shrink_dcache_parent.patch
freevxfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-fix.patch
vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks.patch
nameic-remove-utterly-outdated-comment.patch
make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits.patch
change-libfs-sb-creation-routines-to-avoid-collisions-with-their-root-inodes.patch
aio-is-unlikely.patch
ps3fb-thread-updates.patch
ps3av-thread-updates.patch
ps3fb-kill-superfluous-zero-initializations.patch
ps3av-misc-updates.patch
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