* anonymous inode, and a dentry that describe the "class"
* of the file
*
- * @pfd: [out] pointer to the file descriptor
- * @dpinode: [out] pointer to the inode
- * @pfile: [out] pointer to the file struct
* @name: [in] name of the "class" of the new file
* @fops [in] file operations for the new file
* @priv [in] private data for the new file (will be file's private_data)
* that do not need to have a full-fledged inode in order to operate correctly.
* All the files created with anon_inode_getfd() will share a single inode,
* hence saving memory and avoiding code duplication for the file/inode/dentry
- * setup.
+ * setup. Returns new descriptor or -error.
*/
-int anon_inode_getfd(int *pfd, struct inode **pinode, struct file **pfile,
- const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops,
+int anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops,
void *priv)
{
struct qstr this;
fd_install(fd, file);
- *pfd = fd;
- *pinode = anon_inode_inode;
- *pfile = file;
- return 0;
+ return fd;
err_dput:
dput(dentry);