sysfs: move struct sysfs_dirent to private header
struct sysfs_dirent is private to the fs/sysfs/ subtree. It is
not even referenced as an opaque structure outside of that subtree.
The following patch moves the declaration from include/linux/sysfs.h to
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h, making it clearer that nothing else in the kernel
dereferences it.
I have been running this patch for years. Please integrate and forward
upstream if there are no objections.
From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index d976b00..a77c57e 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+struct sysfs_dirent {
+ atomic_t s_count;
+ struct list_head s_sibling;
+ struct list_head s_children;
+ void * s_element;
+ int s_type;
+ umode_t s_mode;
+ struct dentry * s_dentry;
+ struct iattr * s_iattr;
+ atomic_t s_event;
+};
extern struct vfsmount * sysfs_mount;
extern struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;