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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-12-21 15:13:54 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-12-21 15:13:54 -0800
commitb3e8d7b2478401b2f25f4566a90faad54f7d6d07 (patch)
treedd3904d89a2e545ac5c751ad7bf42012164f92f0
parenta6ec0c03a039677e4b4b5a67a6e19e9e26303000 (diff)
kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()
Now that there are no in-kernel users of this function, remove it as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c37
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index ad81e1c51487..fc615a97e2d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ static inline struct kobj_type *get_ktype(struct kobject *kobj)
}
extern struct kobject *kset_find_obj(struct kset *, const char *);
-extern struct kobject *kset_find_obj_hinted(struct kset *, const char *,
- struct kobject *);
/* The global /sys/kernel/ kobject for people to chain off of */
extern struct kobject *kernel_kobj;
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 640bd98a4c8a..c33d7a18d635 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -746,43 +746,11 @@ void kset_unregister(struct kset *k)
*/
struct kobject *kset_find_obj(struct kset *kset, const char *name)
{
- return kset_find_obj_hinted(kset, name, NULL);
-}
-
-/**
- * kset_find_obj_hinted - search for object in kset given a predecessor hint.
- * @kset: kset we're looking in.
- * @name: object's name.
- * @hint: hint to possible object's predecessor.
- *
- * Check the hint's next object and if it is a match return it directly,
- * otherwise, fall back to the behavior of kset_find_obj(). Either way
- * a reference for the returned object is held and the reference on the
- * hinted object is released.
- */
-struct kobject *kset_find_obj_hinted(struct kset *kset, const char *name,
- struct kobject *hint)
-{
struct kobject *k;
struct kobject *ret = NULL;
spin_lock(&kset->list_lock);
- if (!hint)
- goto slow_search;
-
- /* end of list detection */
- if (hint->entry.next == kset->list.next)
- goto slow_search;
-
- k = container_of(hint->entry.next, struct kobject, entry);
- if (!kobject_name(k) || strcmp(kobject_name(k), name))
- goto slow_search;
-
- ret = kobject_get(k);
- goto unlock_exit;
-
-slow_search:
list_for_each_entry(k, &kset->list, entry) {
if (kobject_name(k) && !strcmp(kobject_name(k), name)) {
ret = kobject_get(k);
@@ -790,12 +758,7 @@ slow_search:
}
}
-unlock_exit:
spin_unlock(&kset->list_lock);
-
- if (hint)
- kobject_put(hint);
-
return ret;
}