kill ->dir_notify()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:57:40 +0000 (00:57 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:07:43 +0000 (18:07 -0500)
commit6badd79bd002788aaec27b50a74ab69ef65ab8ee
tree2a47bf53a7fe2316d98cca71f0b7d01d5024a5ea
parentb6b3fdead251d432f32f2cfce2a893ab8a658110
kill ->dir_notify()

Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify().  The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Documentation/filesystems/Locking
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
fs/bad_inode.c
fs/cifs/Makefile
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
fs/cifs/cifsfs.h
fs/cifs/fcntl.c [deleted file]
fs/dnotify.c
include/linux/fs.h