* [PATCH] namei.c: remove utterly outdated comment
@ 2007-03-07 15:21 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2007-03-07 15:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm; +Cc: linux-fsdevel
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>
Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2007-02-25 11:54:58.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2007-02-25 11:55:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -1310,17 +1310,6 @@
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
}
-/*
- * 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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