Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  merge fchmod() and fchmodat() guts, kill ancient broken kludge
  xfs: fix misspelled S_IS...()
  xfs: get rid of open-coded S_ISREG(), etc.
  vfs: document locking requirements for d_move, __d_move and d_materialise_unique
  omfs: fix (mode & S_IFDIR) abuse
  btrfs: S_ISREG(mode) is not mode & S_IFREG...
  ima: fmode_t misspelled as mode_t...
  pci-label.c: size_t misspelled as mode_t
  jffs2: S_ISLNK(mode & S_IFMT) is pointless
  snd_msnd ->mode is fmode_t, not mode_t
  v9fs_iop_get_acl: get rid of unused variable
  vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list
  Documentation: Exporting: update description of d_splice_alias
  fs: add missing unlock in default_llseek()

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
index 87019d2b5981..09994c247289 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
@@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must:
    1/ provide the filehandle fragment routines described below.
    2/ make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add
       when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name.
-      Typically the ->lookup routine will end with a:
+
+      If inode is NULL, d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) is eqivalent to
+
+		d_add(dentry, inode), NULL
+
+      Similarly, d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)
+
+      Typically the ->lookup routine will simply end with a:
 
 		return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 	}