linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] code cleanup on fs/super.c

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Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:31 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@...il.com>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dchinner@...hat.com, liuqi <liuqi@...nderst.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] code cleanup on fs/super.c

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@...il.com> wrote:
>
>   Clean up the unsed code on fs/super.c, all filesystem using mount_bdev
>   and mount_nodev to replace get_sb_bdev and get_sb_nodev.

There might easily be external modules that still use this.

Also, if you do this, then the same patch would also need to remove
the declarations and the documentation entry, so that there is no sign
at all of those functions in the whole kernel tree.

                       Linus
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