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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-06-11 01:13:09 +0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-07-14 16:34:32 +0400
commit00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b (patch)
treed44be476ced0317ae79f28853734ebe2210ad38e /Documentation/filesystems
parent201f956e43d4542723514e024d948011dd766d43 (diff)
downloadlinux-00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b.tar.xz
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/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
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 *);