Hi Linus,
The shmem_symlink function is completely broken in 2.4.0 and never
worked.
This patch removes the function from 2.4.0
Greetings
Christoph
P.S.: For those which test read/write support patch: I will post patch
for my swapfs soon which will make it working on top of that
diff -uNr 2.4.0/mm/shmem.c 2.4.0-nosymlink/mm/shmem.c
--- 2.4.0/mm/shmem.c Sat Jan 13 14:20:51 2001
+++ 2.4.0-nosymlink/mm/shmem.c Sat Jan 13 14:18:26 2001
@@ -374,8 +374,7 @@
inode->i_fop = &shmem_dir_operations;
break;
case S_IFLNK:
- inode->i_op = &page_symlink_inode_operations;
- break;
+ BUG();
}
spin_lock (&shmem_ilock);
list_add (&inode->u.shmem_i.list, &shmem_inodes);
@@ -528,19 +527,6 @@
return error;
}
-static int shmem_symlink(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *
symname)
-{
- int error;
-
- error = shmem_mknod(dir, dentry, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO, 0);
- if (!error) {
- int l = strlen(symname)+1;
- struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- error = block_symlink(inode, symname, l);
- }
- return error;
-}
-
static int shmem_mmap(struct file * file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
{
struct vm_operations_struct * ops;
@@ -677,7 +663,6 @@
lookup: shmem_lookup,
link: shmem_link,
unlink: shmem_unlink,
- symlink: shmem_symlink,
mkdir: shmem_mkdir,
rmdir: shmem_rmdir,
mknod: shmem_mknod,
-
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