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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 9d019d35728f..bd55038b56f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -203,8 +203,6 @@ struct super_operations { struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb); void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *); - void (*read_inode) (struct inode *); - void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *); int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int); void (*put_inode) (struct inode *); @@ -242,15 +240,6 @@ or bottom half). ->alloc_inode was defined and simply undoes anything done by ->alloc_inode. - read_inode: this method is called to read a specific inode from the - mounted filesystem. The i_ino member in the struct inode is - initialized by the VFS to indicate which inode to read. Other - members are filled in by this method. - - You can set this to NULL and use iget5_locked() instead of iget() - to read inodes. This is necessary for filesystems for which the - inode number is not sufficient to identify an inode. - dirty_inode: this method is called by the VFS to mark an inode dirty. write_inode: this method is called when the VFS needs to write an @@ -308,9 +297,9 @@ or bottom half). quota_write: called by the VFS to write to filesystem quota file. -The read_inode() method is responsible for filling in the "i_op" -field. This is a pointer to a "struct inode_operations" which -describes the methods that can be performed on individual inodes. +Whoever sets up the inode is responsible for filling in the "i_op" field. This +is a pointer to a "struct inode_operations" which describes the methods that +can be performed on individual inodes. The Inode Object |