From b76f90b526737070302a127c710263e2ac707676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:26:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] remove ratelimt()

It mistakenly assumes that a static local in an inlined function is a
kernel-wide singleton.  It also has no callers, so let's remove it.

Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/ratelimit.h | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ratelimit.h b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
index 18a5b9ba9d4..00044b85645 100644
--- a/include/linux/ratelimit.h
+++ b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
@@ -17,11 +17,4 @@ struct ratelimit_state {
 		struct ratelimit_state name = {interval, burst,}
 
 extern int __ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs);
-
-static inline int ratelimit(void)
-{
-	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(rs, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,
-					DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);
-	return __ratelimit(&rs);
-}
 #endif
-- 
2.41.1