string: factorize skip_spaces and export it to be generally available

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / fs / namei.c

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b83d38f..87f97ba 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1279,28 +1279,6 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len)
        return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL);
 }
 
-/**
- * lookup_one_noperm - bad hack for sysfs
- * @name:      pathname component to lookup
- * @base:      base directory to lookup from
- *
- * This is a variant of lookup_one_len that doesn't perform any permission
- * checks.   It's a horrible hack to work around the braindead sysfs
- * architecture and should not be used anywhere else.
- *
- * DON'T USE THIS FUNCTION EVER, thanks.
- */
-struct dentry *lookup_one_noperm(const char *name, struct dentry *base)
-{
-       int err;
-       struct qstr this;
-
-       err = __lookup_one_len(name, &this, base, strlen(name));
-       if (err)
-               return ERR_PTR(err);
-       return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL);
-}
-
 int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
                 struct path *path)
 {