sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:31:28 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 21 May 2010 16:37:31 +0000 (09:37 -0700)
commit746edb7ae8a1abdd39be2b28c03aa073183340db
tree6e2bbfd8f42c11c95a4f63623a96317eb00efe77
parentaf10ec77b43335ab4e473e4087d85979caf02d65
sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link

When removing a symlink sysfs_remove_link does not provide
enough information to figure out which tagged directory the symlink
falls in.  So I need sysfs_delete_link which is passed the target
of the symlink to delete.

sysfs_rename_link is updated to call sysfs_delete_link instead
of sysfs_remove_link as we have all of the information necessary
and the callers are interesting.

Both of these functions now have enough information to find a symlink
in a tagged directory.  The only restriction is that they must be called
before the target kobject is renamed or deleted.  If they are called
later I loose track of which tag the target kobject was marked with
and can no longer find the old symlink to remove it.

This patch was split from an earlier patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/sysfs/symlink.c
include/linux/sysfs.h