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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2010-06-04 11:30:00 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-08-09 16:47:35 -0400
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rename generic_setattr
Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode. Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/attr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/attr.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index b4fa3b0aa596..1f6a895e24e9 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ out_big:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok);
/**
- * generic_setattr - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode
+ * setattr_copy - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode
* @inode: the inode to be updated
* @attr: the new attributes
*
- * generic_setattr must be called with i_mutex held.
+ * setattr_copy must be called with i_mutex held.
*
- * generic_setattr updates the inode's metadata with that specified
+ * setattr_copy updates the inode's metadata with that specified
* in attr. Noticably missing is inode size update, which is more complex
* as it requires pagecache updates. See simple_setsize.
*
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok);
* that for "simple" filesystems, the struct inode is the inode storage.
* The caller is free to mark the inode dirty afterwards if needed.
*/
-void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
+void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
{
unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
@@ -144,11 +144,11 @@ void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
inode->i_mode = mode;
}
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_setattr);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(setattr_copy);
/*
* note this function is deprecated, the new truncate sequence should be
- * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, generic_setattr.
+ * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, setattr_copy.
*/
int inode_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
{
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ int inode_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
return error;
}
- generic_setattr(inode, attr);
+ setattr_copy(inode, attr);
mark_inode_dirty(inode);