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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-11-20 16:08:56 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-11 11:24:54 -0800
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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>
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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 *);