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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>2014-10-12 21:29:29 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-12 23:09:10 +0200
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parentvfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths (diff)
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fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
This comment is 5 years outdated; init_file() no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 385bfd31512a..a84362333de7 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -150,18 +150,10 @@ over:
/**
* alloc_file - allocate and initialize a 'struct file'
- * @mnt: the vfsmount on which the file will reside
- * @dentry: the dentry representing the new file
+ *
+ * @path: the (dentry, vfsmount) pair for the new file
* @mode: the mode with which the new file will be opened
* @fop: the 'struct file_operations' for the new file
- *
- * Use this instead of get_empty_filp() to get a new
- * 'struct file'. Do so because of the same initialization
- * pitfalls reasons listed for init_file(). This is a
- * preferred interface to using init_file().
- *
- * If all the callers of init_file() are eliminated, its
- * code should be moved into this function.
*/
struct file *alloc_file(struct path *path, fmode_t mode,
const struct file_operations *fop)