From ebfc3b49a7ac25920cb5be5445f602e51d2ea559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:05:36 -0400 Subject: don't pass nameidata to ->create() boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead; Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed not to be there yet. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 690f573928b9..2bef2b3843d1 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... -- cgit v1.2.3