[RFC PATCH 0/3] create simple libfs directory iterator and make efivarfs use it

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

[Note this is built on top of the previous patch to populate path.mnt]

This turned out to be much simpler than I feared.  The first patch
breaks out the core of the current dcache_readdir() into an internal
function with a callback (there should be no functional change).  The
second adds a new API, simple_iterate_call(), which loops over the
dentries in the next level and executes a callback for each one and
the third which removes all the efivarfs superblock and mnt crud and
replaces it with this simple callback interface.  I think the
diffstats of the third patch demonstrate how much nicer it is for us:

 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

Regards,

James

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James Bottomley (3):
  libfs: rework dcache_readdir to use an internal function with callback
  libfs: add simple directory iteration function with callback
  efivarfs: replace iterate_dir with libfs function simple_iterate_call

 fs/efivarfs/super.c | 103 +++-----------------------------------------
 fs/libfs.c          |  74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/linux/fs.h  |   2 +
 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)

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