2002-06-18 00:53:28

by Andries E. Brouwer

Subject: [PATCH] remove path_init

It looks like there are no in-tree users of path_init.
Maybe it can be removed.

Andries

diff -u -r linux-2.5.22/linux/fs/namei.c linux-2.5.22pi/linux/fs/namei.c
--- linux-2.5.22/linux/fs/namei.c Sun Jun 9 07:28:50 2002
+++ linux-2.5.22pi/linux/fs/namei.c Tue Jun 18 02:49:39 2002
@@ -837,22 +837,6 @@
return 1;
}

-/* SMP-safe */
-int path_init(const char *name, unsigned int flags, struct nameidata *nd)
-{
- nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT; /* if there are only slashes... */
- nd->old_mnt = NULL;
- nd->old_dentry = NULL;
- nd->flags = flags;
- if (*name=='/')
- return walk_init_root(name,nd);
- read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
- nd->mnt = mntget(current->fs->pwdmnt);
- nd->dentry = dget(current->fs->pwd);
- read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
- return 1;
-}
-
int path_lookup(const char *name, unsigned int flags, struct nameidata *nd)
{
nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT; /* if there are only slashes... */
diff -u -r linux-2.5.22/linux/include/linux/namei.h linux-2.5.22pi/linux/include/linux/namei.h
--- linux-2.5.22/linux/include/linux/namei.h Sun Jun 9 07:28:48 2002
+++ linux-2.5.22pi/linux/include/linux/namei.h Tue Jun 18 02:49:18 2002
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
__user_walk(name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, nd)
#define user_path_walk_link(name,nd) \
__user_walk(name, 0, nd)
-extern int FASTCALL(path_init(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *));
extern int FASTCALL(path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *));
extern int FASTCALL(path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
extern int FASTCALL(link_path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
diff -u -r linux-2.5.22/linux/kernel/ksyms.c linux-2.5.22pi/linux/kernel/ksyms.c
--- linux-2.5.22/linux/kernel/ksyms.c Mon Jun 17 19:35:40 2002
+++ linux-2.5.22pi/linux/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Jun 18 02:49:49 2002
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(follow_down);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_mnt);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_lookup);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_init);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_walk);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_release);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__user_walk);