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>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 23d2f4460deb..ccec55394380 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ prototypes:
         unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
                         unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
         int (*check_flags)(int);
-        int (*dir_notify)(struct file *, unsigned long);
 };
 
 locking rules:
@@ -424,7 +423,6 @@ sendfile:		no
 sendpage:               no
 get_unmapped_area:      no
 check_flags:            no
-dir_notify:             no
 
 ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
 implementations.  If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 041cb771d505..ef19afa186a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -733,7 +733,6 @@ struct file_operations {
         ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
         unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
         int (*check_flags)(int);
-        int (*dir_notify)(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg);
         int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
         ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int);
         ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
@@ -800,8 +799,6 @@ otherwise noted.
 
   check_flags: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_SETFL command
 
-  dir_notify: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_NOTIFY command
-
   flock: called by the flock(2) system call
 
   splice_write: called by the VFS to splice data from a pipe to a file. This