* Retaining negative dentries for an in-memory filesystem just wastes
* memory and lookup time: arrange for them to be deleted immediately.
*/
-static int simple_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *dentry)
+int always_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *dentry)
{
return 1;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(always_delete_dentry);
+
+const struct dentry_operations simple_dentry_operations = {
+ .d_delete = always_delete_dentry,
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_dentry_operations);
/*
* Lookup the data. This is trivial - if the dentry didn't already
*/
struct dentry *simple_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
{
- static const struct dentry_operations simple_dentry_operations = {
- .d_delete = simple_delete_dentry,
- };
-
if (dentry->d_name.len > NAME_MAX)
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
if (!dentry->d_sb->s_d_op)