[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 10/13] cifs: remove cifs_new_inode

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Wed May 13 20:04:51 GMT 2009


Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
---
 fs/cifs/cifsproto.h |    1 -
 fs/cifs/inode.c     |   43 -------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
index e4b61f9..05a1b2e 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsproto.h
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ extern void cifs_unix_basic_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr,
 				     FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO *info,
 				     struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb);
 extern void cifs_fattr_to_inode(struct inode *inode, struct cifs_fattr *fattr);
-extern struct inode *cifs_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, __u64 *inum);
 extern struct inode *cifs_iget(struct super_block *sb,
 			       struct cifs_fattr *fattr);
 
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 31f05eb..f13a5ef 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -234,49 +234,6 @@ cifs_create_dfs_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, struct super_block *sb)
 	fattr->cf_flags |= CIFS_FATTR_DFS_REFERRAL;
 }
 
-/**
- * cifs_new inode - create new inode, initialize, and hash it
- * @sb - pointer to superblock
- * @inum - if valid pointer and serverino is enabled, replace i_ino with val
- *
- * Create a new inode, initialize it for CIFS and hash it. Returns the new
- * inode or NULL if one couldn't be allocated.
- *
- * If the share isn't mounted with "serverino" or inum is a NULL pointer then
- * we'll just use the inode number assigned by new_inode(). Note that this can
- * mean i_ino collisions since the i_ino assigned by new_inode is not
- * guaranteed to be unique.
- */
-struct inode *
-cifs_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, __u64 *inum)
-{
-	struct inode *inode;
-
-	inode = new_inode(sb);
-	if (inode == NULL)
-		return NULL;
-
-	/*
-	 * BB: Is i_ino == 0 legal? Here, we assume that it is. If it isn't we
-	 *     stop passing inum as ptr. Are there sanity checks we can use to
-	 *     ensure that the server is really filling in that field? Also,
-	 *     if serverino is disabled, perhaps we should be using iunique()?
-	 */
-	if (inum && (CIFS_SB(sb)->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM))
-		inode->i_ino = (unsigned long) *inum;
-
-	/*
-	 * must set this here instead of cifs_alloc_inode since VFS will
-	 * clobber i_flags
-	 */
-	if (sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME)
-		inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME | S_NOCMTIME;
-
-	insert_inode_hash(inode);
-
-	return inode;
-}
-
 int cifs_get_inode_info_unix(struct inode **pinode,
 			     const unsigned char *full_path,
 			     struct super_block *sb, int xid)
-- 
1.6.2.2



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