linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: remove stale comment in inode

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Message-ID: <20151008230720.GA19399@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2015 17:07:20 -0600
From:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: remove stale comment in inode_operations

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 04:59:20PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> The big warning comment that is currently at the end of struct
> inode_operations was added as part of this commit:
> 
> 4aa7c6346be3 ("vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()")
> 
> It was added to warn people not to use the newly added 'dentry_open'
> function pointer.
> 
> This function pointer was removed as part of this commit:
> 
> 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and
> 		f_inode to the underlay")
> 
> The comment was left behind and now refers to nothing, so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/fs.h | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index b2f9b9c..b3ff479 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1679,8 +1679,6 @@ struct inode_operations {
>  			   umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
>  	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
>  	int (*set_acl)(struct inode *, struct posix_acl *, int);
> -
> -	/* WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use! */
>  } ____cacheline_aligned;
>  
>  ssize_t rw_copy_check_uvector(int type, const struct iovec __user * uvector,

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