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Commit f21f8062 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tmpfs: revert SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE



Revert 4fb5ef08 ("tmpfs: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE").  I believe
it's correct, and it's been nice to have from rc1 to rc6; but as the
original commit said:

I don't know who actually uses SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE, and whether it
would be of any use to them on tmpfs.  This code adds 92 lines and 752
bytes on x86_64 - is that bloat or worthwhile?

Nobody asked for it, so I conclude that it's bloat: let's revert tmpfs to
the dumb generic support for v3.5.  We can always reinstate it later if
useful, and anyone needing it in a hurry can just get it out of git.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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