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kill vfs_permission

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With all the nameidata removal there's no point anymore for this helper.
Of the three callers left two will go away with the next lookup series
anyway.

Also add proper kerneldoc to inode_permission as this is the main
permission check routine now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig 2008-10-24 09:59:29 +02:00 • committed by Al Viro
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@ -1212,7 +1212,6 @@ extern void unlock_super(struct super_block *);
/*
* VFS helper functions..
*/
extern int vfs_permission(struct nameidata *, int);
extern int vfs_create(struct inode *, struct dentry *, int, struct nameidata *);
extern int vfs_mkdir(struct inode *, struct dentry *, int);
extern int vfs_mknod(struct inode *, struct dentry *, int, dev_t);