[PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_device

The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily.  Also
update some comments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 90a110feb71..801fe7f3628 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
  * This is needed for the following functions:
  *  - inode_has_buffers
  *  - invalidate_inode_buffers
- *  - fsync_bdev
  *  - invalidate_bdev
  *
  * FIXME: remove all knowledge of the buffer layer from this file
@@ -332,14 +331,6 @@ static int invalidate_list(struct list_head *head, struct list_head *dispose)
         return busy;
 }
 
-/*
- * This is a two-stage process. First we collect all
- * offending inodes onto the throw-away list, and in
- * the second stage we actually dispose of them. This
- * is because we don't want to sleep while messing
- * with the global lists..
- */
- 
 /**
  *      invalidate_inodes       - discard the inodes on a device
  *      @sb: superblock
@@ -366,16 +357,11 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block * sb)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_inodes);
  
-int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev, int do_sync)
+int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-        struct super_block *sb;
-        int res;
+        struct super_block *sb = get_super(bdev);
+        int res = 0;
 
-        if (do_sync)
-                fsync_bdev(bdev);
-
-        res = 0;
-        sb = get_super(bdev);
         if (sb) {
                 /*
                  * no need to lock the super, get_super holds the
@@ -390,7 +376,6 @@ int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev, int do_sync)
         invalidate_bdev(bdev, 0);
         return res;
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__invalidate_device);
 
 static int can_unuse(struct inode *inode)