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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
| commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
| tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff) | |
| parent | 0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b4a3d765ff9..74acd961881 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -429,3 +429,9 @@ filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. + +-- +[mandatory] + d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code +misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, +d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. |