The patch titled
     proc: remove useless checks in proc_register()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     proc-remove-useless-checks-in-proc_register.patch

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Subject: proc: remove useless checks in proc_register()
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Before proc_register() all PDEs are created by proc_create() which doesn't set
->proc_iops and ->proc_fops -- they're NULL.  So those branches in
proc_register() are always taken.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/proc/generic.c |   15 +++++----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-checks-in-proc_register 
fs/proc/generic.c
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c~proc-remove-useless-checks-in-proc_register
+++ a/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -526,19 +526,14 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir
        dp->low_ino = i;
 
        if (S_ISDIR(dp->mode)) {
-               if (dp->proc_iops == NULL) {
-                       dp->proc_fops = &proc_dir_operations;
-                       dp->proc_iops = &proc_dir_inode_operations;
-               }
+               dp->proc_fops = &proc_dir_operations;
+               dp->proc_iops = &proc_dir_inode_operations;
                dir->nlink++;
        } else if (S_ISLNK(dp->mode)) {
-               if (dp->proc_iops == NULL)
-                       dp->proc_iops = &proc_link_inode_operations;
+               dp->proc_iops = &proc_link_inode_operations;
        } else if (S_ISREG(dp->mode)) {
-               if (dp->proc_fops == NULL)
-                       dp->proc_fops = &proc_file_operations;
-               if (dp->proc_iops == NULL)
-                       dp->proc_iops = &proc_file_inode_operations;
+               dp->proc_fops = &proc_file_operations;
+               dp->proc_iops = &proc_file_inode_operations;
        }
 
        spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
proc-remove-module_license.patch
proc-less-lock-operations-during-lookup.patch
proc-simplify-function-prototypes.patch
proc-remove-useless-check-on-symlink-removal.patch
proc-remove-useless-checks-in-proc_register.patch
single_open-seq_release-leak-diagnostics.patch

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