On 09/29/2015 06:46 PM, Yaowei Bai wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 04:47:30PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 09/28/2015 04:43 PM, Yaowei Bai wrote:
>>> As new_valid_dev always returns 1, so !new_valid_dev check is not
>>> needed, remove it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiao...@163.com>
>>
>> ACK-by: Boaz Harrosh <o...@electrozaur.com>
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> Please submit this through some General tree like the vfs or mm-tree
>
> This's my first fs-specific patch, so i think you mean i should cc vfs
> or mm-tree?
>
Yes you should ask Al (or Morton) to take the all patchset through their
tree. Then once all users of new_valid_dev() are gone it can be removed
in the one tree.
Thanks
Boaz
>>
>> Thanks
>> Boaz
>>
>>> ---
>>> fs/exofs/namei.c | 3 ---
>>> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/exofs/namei.c b/fs/exofs/namei.c
>>> index 09a6bb1..994e078 100644
>>> --- a/fs/exofs/namei.c
>>> +++ b/fs/exofs/namei.c
>>> @@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ static int exofs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry
>>> *dentry, umode_t mode,
>>> struct inode *inode;
>>> int err;
>>>
>>> - if (!new_valid_dev(rdev))
>>> - return -EINVAL;
>>> -
>>> inode = exofs_new_inode(dir, mode);
>>> err = PTR_ERR(inode);
>>> if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
>>>
>
>
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