Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Haifeng Xu <> | Subject | [PATCH RESEND 1/2] vfs: remove unused d_backing_dentry() function | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:01:55 +0000 |
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d_backing_dentry() isn't used by anyone, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com> Reviewed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> --- include/linux/dcache.h | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 6b351e009f59..13023c7211d6 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -545,21 +545,6 @@ static inline struct inode *d_backing_inode(const struct dentry *upper) return inode; } -/** - * d_backing_dentry - Get upper or lower dentry we should be using - * @upper: The upper layer - * - * This is the helper that should be used to get the dentry of the inode that - * will be used if this dentry were opened as a file. It may be the upper - * dentry or it may be a lower dentry pinned by the upper. - * - * Normal filesystems should not use this to access their own dentries. - */ -static inline struct dentry *d_backing_dentry(struct dentry *upper) -{ - return upper; -} - /** * d_real - Return the real dentry * @dentry: the dentry to query -- 2.25.1
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