Re: [PATCH] code cleanup on fs/super.c

["Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:20:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   Clean up the unsed code on fs/super.c, all filesystem using mount_bdev
> >   and mount_nodev to replace get_sb_bdev and get_sb_nodev.
> 
> There might easily be external modules that still use this.
> 
> Also, if you do this, then the same patch would also need to remove
> the declarations and the documentation entry, so that there is no sign
> at all of those functions in the whole kernel tree.

The documentation update should just state that previous users of
get_sb_bdev() and get_sb_bdev() can and should just use mount_bdev()
and mount_nodev() instead.  The lines of code in the get_sb_*()
functions that do this:

	  mnt->mnt_root = root;
	  mnt->mnt_sb = root->d_sb;

Actually aren't necessary, since these functions are used in a
filesystem's file_system_type->mount() function, and vfs_kern_mount(),
which calls the type->mount() function, already does the above call.

So telling external modules that if you use get_sb_bdev(), you should
use mount_bdev() instead, should be just fine.

						- Ted