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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-12-17 21:24:22 -0500
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-07-28 09:58:50 -0400
commit74be0cc82835aecad332a29896b0f212ba893403 (patch)
treeeaae59c73ba52ff8cab8ee845e989d9877603f4c /include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
parentcac69dad32899c6f4c66bb4f9baf69b0d3c7d3d1 (diff)
fsnotify: remove group_num altogether
The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be able to find a group after it was added. I no longer think this is a necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 427f6ffab12..57e503d017c 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -60,12 +60,6 @@
#define FS_MOVE (FS_MOVED_FROM | FS_MOVED_TO)
-/* listeners that hard code group numbers near the top */
-#define DNOTIFY_GROUP_NUM UINT_MAX
-#define AUDIT_WATCH_GROUP_NUM (DNOTIFY_GROUP_NUM-1)
-#define AUDIT_TREE_GROUP_NUM (AUDIT_WATCH_GROUP_NUM-1)
-#define INOTIFY_GROUP_NUM (AUDIT_TREE_GROUP_NUM-1)
-
struct fsnotify_group;
struct fsnotify_event;
struct fsnotify_mark_entry;
@@ -124,7 +118,6 @@ struct fsnotify_group {
* closed.
*/
atomic_t refcnt; /* things with interest in this group */
- unsigned int group_num; /* simply prevents accidental group collision */
const struct fsnotify_ops *ops; /* how this group handles things */
@@ -312,8 +305,7 @@ static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode
/* must call when a group changes its ->mask */
extern void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void);
/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
-extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num,
- __u32 mask,
+extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(__u32 mask,
const struct fsnotify_ops *ops);
/* run all marks associated with this group and update group->mask */
extern void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group *group);