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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 |
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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. |