kill ->dir_notify()

Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify().  The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2008-12-26 00:57:40 -05:00
parent b6b3fdead2
commit 6badd79bd0
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CIFS) += cifs.o
cifs-y := cifsfs.o cifssmb.o cifs_debug.o connect.o dir.o file.o inode.o \
link.o misc.o netmisc.o smbdes.o smbencrypt.o transport.o asn1.o \
md4.o md5.o cifs_unicode.o nterr.o xattr.o cifsencrypt.o fcntl.o \
md4.o md5.o cifs_unicode.o nterr.o xattr.o cifsencrypt.o \
readdir.o ioctl.o sess.o export.o cifsacl.o
cifs-$(CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL) += cifs_spnego.o