sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()

sysfs_update_file() depends on inode->i_mtime but sysfs iondes are now
reclaimable making the reported modification time unreliable.  There's
only one user (pci hotplug) of this notification mechanism and it
reportedly isn't utilized from userland.

Kill sysfs_update_file().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 9fdf8dae0dc..61a8c19df7c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
@@ -453,44 +452,6 @@ int sysfs_add_file_to_group(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_add_file_to_group);
 
-
-/**
- * sysfs_update_file - update the modified timestamp on an object attribute.
- * @kobj: object we're acting for.
- * @attr: attribute descriptor.
- */
-int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
-{
-	struct sysfs_dirent *victim_sd = NULL;
-	struct dentry *victim = NULL;
-	int rc;
-
-	rc = -ENOENT;
-	victim_sd = sysfs_get_dirent(kobj->sd, attr->name);
-	if (!victim_sd)
-		goto out;
-
-	mutex_lock(&sysfs_rename_mutex);
-	victim = sysfs_get_dentry(victim_sd);
-	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_rename_mutex);
-	if (IS_ERR(victim)) {
-		rc = PTR_ERR(victim);
-		victim = NULL;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	mutex_lock(&victim->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	victim->d_inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
-	fsnotify_modify(victim);
-	mutex_unlock(&victim->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	rc = 0;
- out:
-	dput(victim);
-	sysfs_put(victim_sd);
-	return rc;
-}
-
-
 /**
  * sysfs_chmod_file - update the modified mode value on an object attribute.
  * @kobj: object we're acting for.
@@ -641,4 +602,3 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_schedule_callback);
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_file);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_file);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_update_file);