[PATCH] Remove f_error field from struct file

The following patch removes the f_error field and all checks of f_error.

Trond said:

  f_error was introduced for NFS, and made sense when we were guaranteed
  always to have a file pointer around when write errors occurred.  Since
  then, we have (for various reasons) had to introduce the nfs_open_context in
  order to track the file read/write state, and it made sense to move our
  f_error tracking there too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9b1278e21279..517bf4966bf5 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@ struct file {
         atomic_t                f_count;
         unsigned int            f_flags;
         mode_t                  f_mode;
-        int                     f_error;
         loff_t                  f_pos;
         struct fown_struct      f_owner;
         unsigned int            f_uid, f_gid;