linux-kernel - [PATCH] afs: Remove afs_dynroot_d

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Message-ID: <2387317.1705097947@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:19:07 +0000
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
    linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] afs: Remove afs_dynroot_d_revalidate() as it is redundant

Remove afs_dynroot_d_revalidate() as it is redundant as all it does is
return 1 and the caller assumes that if the op is not given.

Suggested-by: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
---
 fs/afs/dynroot.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dynroot.c b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
index 2cd40ba601f1..814c65f54d6e 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dynroot.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
@@ -258,16 +258,7 @@ const struct inode_operations afs_dynroot_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup		= afs_dynroot_lookup,
 };
 
-/*
- * Dirs in the dynamic root don't need revalidation.
- */
-static int afs_dynroot_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
-{
-	return 1;
-}
-
 const struct dentry_operations afs_dynroot_dentry_operations = {
-	.d_revalidate	= afs_dynroot_d_revalidate,
 	.d_delete	= always_delete_dentry,
 	.d_release	= afs_d_release,
 	.d_automount	= afs_d_automount,