Al Viro 6badd79bd0 kill ->dir_notify() ...

Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify().  The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00

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