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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-13 04:24:21 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-11-19 19:01:20 +0100
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parentmerge d_materialise_unique() into d_splice_alias() (diff)
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switch d_materialise_unique() users to d_splice_alias()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -463,3 +463,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held,
of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash,
as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked().
+--
+[mandatory]
+ d_materialise_unique() is gone; d_splice_alias() does everything you
+ need now. Remember that they have opposite orders of arguments ;-/