proc: remove proc_tty_ldisc variable
/proc/tty/ldisc appear to be unused as a directory and
it had been always that way.
But it is userspace visible thing.
Cowardly remove only in-kernel variable holding it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c b/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
index cb761f0..15f327b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_tty.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
/*
* The /proc/tty directory inodes...
*/
-static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_tty_ldisc, *proc_tty_driver;
+static struct proc_dir_entry *proc_tty_driver;
/*
* This is the handler for /proc/tty/drivers
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
{
if (!proc_mkdir("tty", NULL))
return;
- proc_tty_ldisc = proc_mkdir("tty/ldisc", NULL);
+ proc_mkdir("tty/ldisc", NULL); /* Preserved: it's userspace visible */
/*
* /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact character counts for
* serial links which is just too easy to abuse for inferring