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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-06-10 23:13:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-07-14 14:34:32 +0200 |
| commit | 00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b (patch) | |
| tree | d44be476ced0317ae79f28853734ebe2210ad38e /Documentation | |
| parent | fs/namei.c: don't pass namedata to lookup_dcache() (diff) | |
| download | linux-00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b.tar.xz linux-00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b.zip | |
stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 52a057367f6f..33f2c8f1db81 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *); - struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameid -ata *); + struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 56750b714d1e..690f573928b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -434,5 +434,5 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. -- [mandatory] - The witch is dead! Well, 1/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() does *not* -take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. + The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and +->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index b9a406b2ed0f..ee786354946c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct inode_operations { int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *); - struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); + struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); |