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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 33f2c8f1db8..e0cce2a5f82 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 690f573928b..2bef2b3843d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -436,3 +436,9 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. [mandatory] The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and ->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. +-- +[mandatory] + ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous +two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that +local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the +object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ee786354946..aa754e01464 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an inode in your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct inode_operations { - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, bool); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); |