From 5d5d568975307877e9195f5305f4240e506a2807 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:41:18 -0400 Subject: make new_sync_{read,write}() static All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL {read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index fa2db081505e..4006483c275f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -471,3 +471,12 @@ 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. -- cgit v1.2.3