[PATCH] generic_file_write_nolock cleanup

[Badari Pulavarty]

Hi,

generic_file_write_nolock() and __generic_file_write_nolock() seems
to be doing exactly same thing. Why do we have 2 of these ? 
Can we kill __generic_file_write_nolock() ?

Here is the patch.

Thanks,
Badari


Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux.org/mm/filemap.c	2006-01-16 23:44:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/mm/filemap.c	2006-01-30 08:51:04.000000000 -0800
@@ -2155,20 +2155,6 @@ generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kio
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-__generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct kiocb kiocb;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 ssize_t
 generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
 				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
@@ -2222,7 +2208,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *
 					.iov_len = count };
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
+	ret = generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
@@ -2258,7 +2244,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file 
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_write_nolock(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	ret = generic_file_write_nolock(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {