Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs

Pull partial readlink cleanups from Miklos Szeredi.

This is the uncontroversial part of the readlink cleanup patch-set that
simplifies the default readlink handling.

Miklos and Al are still discussing the rest of the series.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
  vfs: make generic_readlink() static
  vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments
  vfs: default to generic_readlink()
  vfs: replace calling i_op->readlink with vfs_readlink()
  proc/self: use generic_readlink
  ecryptfs: use vfs_get_link()
  bad_inode: add missing i_op initializers

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 3893f4d44cd4..b968084eeac1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ otherwise noted.
 	exist; this is checked by the VFS.  Unlike plain rename,
 	source and target may be of different type.
 
-  readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if
-	you want to support reading symbolic links
-
   get_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the
 	inode it points to.  Only required if you want to support
 	symbolic links.  This method returns the symlink body
@@ -468,6 +465,12 @@ otherwise noted.
 	argument.  If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode,
 	have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD).
 
+  readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the
+	cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in
+	fact a symlink.  Normally filesystems should only implement
+	->get_link for symlinks and readlink(2) will automatically use
+	that.
+
   permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
   	filesystem.