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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index cae6d27c9f5b..726a4f6fa3c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -864,6 +864,7 @@ struct dentry_operations { void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); + struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -930,6 +931,19 @@ struct dentry_operations { at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char. dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this. + d_automount: called when an automount dentry is to be traversed (optional). + This should create a new VFS mount record, mount it on the directory + and return the record to the caller. The caller is supplied with a + path parameter giving the automount directory to describe the automount + target and the parent VFS mount record to provide inheritable mount + parameters. NULL should be returned if someone else managed to make + the automount first. If the automount failed, then an error code + should be returned. + + This function is only used if DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT is set on the + dentry. This is set by __d_instantiate() if S_AUTOMOUNT is set on the + inode being added. + Example : static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen) |