Re: [Patch] ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlink

From: Joel Becker
Date: Fri May 13 2011 - 14:07:28 EST


On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:34:16PM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> It is obsoleted since Dec 2005.

Actually, we moved it in 2008. Sunil, Mark, do we have new
enough tools everywhere? Looks like ocfs2-tools 1.4 has it. I'm going
to take this unless you object.

Joel

>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/obsolete/o2cb | 11 -----------
> Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb | 10 ++++++++++
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 ----------
> fs/ocfs2/cluster/sys.c | 9 ---------
> 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/o2cb
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 9c49d8e..0000000
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/o2cb
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
> -What: /sys/o2cb symlink
> -Date: Dec 2005
> -KernelVersion: 2.6.16
> -Contact: ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink will
> - be removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look
> - in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new
> - software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead.
> - See Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb for more information on usage.
> -Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to
> - ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..7f5daa4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/o2cb
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +What: /sys/o2cb symlink
> +Date: May 2011
> +KernelVersion: 2.6.40
> +Contact: ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +Description: This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink is
> + removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look
> + in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new
> + software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead.
> +Users: ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to
> + ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> index 492e81d..5f3561e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> @@ -273,16 +273,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---------------------------
>
> -What: /sys/o2cb symlink
> -When: January 2010
> -Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
> - exists as a symlink for backwards compatibility for old versions of
> - ocfs2-tools. 2 years should be sufficient time to phase in new versions
> - which know to look in /sys/fs/o2cb.
> -Who: ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -
> ----------------------------
> -
> What: Ability for non root users to shm_get hugetlb pages based on mlock
> resource limits
> When: 2.6.31
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/sys.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/sys.c
> index bc702da..a4b0773 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/sys.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/sys.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ static struct kset *o2cb_kset;
> void o2cb_sys_shutdown(void)
> {
> mlog_sys_shutdown();
> - sysfs_remove_link(NULL, "o2cb");
> kset_unregister(o2cb_kset);
> }
>
> @@ -69,14 +68,6 @@ int o2cb_sys_init(void)
> if (!o2cb_kset)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - /*
> - * Create this symlink for backwards compatibility with old
> - * versions of ocfs2-tools which look for things in /sys/o2cb.
> - */
> - ret = sysfs_create_link(NULL, &o2cb_kset->kobj, "o2cb");
> - if (ret)
> - goto error;
> -
> ret = sysfs_create_group(&o2cb_kset->kobj, &o2cb_attr_group);
> if (ret)
> goto error;

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