Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"

This reverts commit 1ae06819c77cff1ea2833c94f8c093fe8a5c79db.

Tejun writes:
        I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series?
        get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential
        to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is
        something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work
        with the remove_self() like everybody else.  IOW, I think the
        first posting was correct.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 1b8b91b67fdb..810cf6e613e5 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -372,29 +372,6 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_ns(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_file_ns);
 
-/**
- * sysfs_remove_file_self - remove an object attribute from its own method
- * @kobj: object we're acting for
- * @attr: attribute descriptor
- *
- * See kernfs_remove_self() for details.
- */
-bool sysfs_remove_file_self(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr)
-{
-        struct kernfs_node *parent = kobj->sd;
-        struct kernfs_node *kn;
-        bool ret;
-
-        kn = kernfs_find_and_get(parent, attr->name);
-        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!kn))
-                return false;
-
-        ret = kernfs_remove_self(kn);
-
-        kernfs_put(kn);
-        return ret;
-}
-
 void sysfs_remove_files(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute **ptr)
 {
         int i;