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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 04:32:26 +0300
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 06:05:20 +0300
commit2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e (patch)
tree6186a6458c3c160385d794a23eaf07c786a9e61b /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parentcec32a47010647e8b0603726ebb75b990a4057a4 (diff)
parent09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e.tar.xz
Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards, due to API changes in the regulator tree. I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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@@ -471,3 +471,15 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
f_dentry is gone; use f_path.dentry, or, better yet, see if you can avoid
it entirely.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ never call ->read() and ->write() directly; use __vfs_{read,write} or
+ wrappers; instead of checking for ->write or ->read being NULL, look for
+ FMODE_CAN_{WRITE,READ} in file->f_mode.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ do _not_ use new_sync_{read,write} for ->read/->write; leave it NULL
+ instead.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->aio_read/->aio_write are gone. Use ->read_iter/->write_iter.