linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/17] file: Rename __close_fd to close

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Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:48:21 -0500
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] file: Rename __close_fd to close_fd and remove the files parameter

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:

> Please kill off ksys_close as well while you're at it.

Good point.  ksys_close is just a trivial wrapper around close_fd.  So
the one caller of ksys_close autofs_dev_ioctl_closemount can be
trivially changed to call close_fd.

Eric