sysfs: Kill nlink counting.
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:09:31 +0000 (20:09 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:41:46 +0000 (12:41 -0800)
Tracking the number of subdirectories requires an extra field that increases
the size of sysfs_dirent.  nlinks are not particularly interesting for sysfs
and the nlink counts are wrong when network namespaces are involved so stop
counting them, and always return nlink == 1.  Userspace already knows that
directories with nlink == 1 have an nlink count they can't use to count
subdirectories.

This reduces the size of sysfs_dirent by 8 bytes on 64bit platforms.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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