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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-09-15 15:08:05 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-09-15 15:08:18 +0200
commite060c38434b2caa78efe7cedaff4191040b65a15 (patch)
tree407361230bf6733f63d8e788e4b5e6566ee04818 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
parent10e4ac572eeffe5317019bd7330b6058a400dfc2 (diff)
parentcc39c6a9bbdebfcf1a7dee64d83bf302bc38d941 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches based on more recent version of the tree.
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting
index 87019d2b598..09994c24728 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);
}