From 5843205b55d0ec9564289d4b41bab093ae15f51a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:25:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] namei.c: remove utterly outdated comment
We don't have a routine called namei() anymore since at least 2.3.x, and
the comment is just totally out of sync with the current lookup logic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/namei.c | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 94b2f60aec22..aef62280b878 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1350,17 +1350,6 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len_kern(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int le
return __lookup_hash_kern(&this, base, NULL);
}
-/*
- * namei()
- *
- * is used by most simple commands to get the inode of a specified name.
- * Open, link etc use their own routines, but this is enough for things
- * like 'chmod' etc.
- *
- * namei exists in two versions: namei/lnamei. The only difference is
- * that namei follows links, while lnamei does not.
- * SMP-safe
- */
int fastcall __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
struct nameidata *nd)
{
--
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