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authorSatyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>2007-07-04 16:37:16 +0530
committerMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>2007-07-10 17:02:31 -0700
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[PATCH] configfs+dlm: Rename config_group_find_obj and state semantics clearly
Configfs being based upon sysfs code, config_group_find_obj() is probably so named because of the similar kset_find_obj() in sysfs. However, "kobject"s in sysfs become "config_item"s in configfs, so let's call it config_group_find_item() instead, for sake of uniformity, and make corresponding change in the users of this function. BTW a crucial difference between kset_find_obj and config_group_find_item is in locking expectations. kset_find_obj does its locking by itself, but config_group_find_item expects the *caller* to do the locking. The reason for this: kset's have their own locks, config_group's don't but instead rely on the subsystem mutex. And, subsystem needn't necessarily be around when config_group_find_item() is called. So let's state these locking semantics explicitly, and rectify the comment, otherwise bugs could continue to occur in future, as they did in the past (refer commit d82b8191e238 in gfs2-2.6-fixes.git). [ I also took the opportunity to fix some bad whitespace and double-empty lines. --Joel ] [ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit 3168b0780d06ace875696f8a648d04d6089654e5 manually resolved. --Mark ] Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/configfs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/configfs.h7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/configfs.h b/include/linux/configfs.h
index def7c83d43a2..bbb1b6cafa8b 100644
--- a/include/linux/configfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/configfs.h
@@ -86,12 +86,10 @@ struct config_item_type {
struct configfs_attribute **ct_attrs;
};
-
/**
* group - a group of config_items of a specific type, belonging
* to a specific subsystem.
*/
-
struct config_group {
struct config_item cg_item;
struct list_head cg_children;
@@ -99,13 +97,11 @@ struct config_group {
struct config_group **default_groups;
};
-
extern void config_group_init(struct config_group *group);
extern void config_group_init_type_name(struct config_group *group,
const char *name,
struct config_item_type *type);
-
static inline struct config_group *to_config_group(struct config_item *item)
{
return item ? container_of(item,struct config_group,cg_item) : NULL;
@@ -121,7 +117,8 @@ static inline void config_group_put(struct config_group *group)
config_item_put(&group->cg_item);
}
-extern struct config_item *config_group_find_obj(struct config_group *, const char *);
+extern struct config_item *config_group_find_item(struct config_group *,
+ const char *);
struct configfs_attribute {