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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-17 19:16:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-17 19:16:12 -0800
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Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs
Pull partial readlink cleanups from Miklos Szeredi. This is the uncontroversial part of the readlink cleanup patch-set that simplifies the default readlink handling. Miklos and Al are still discussing the rest of the series. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: vfs: make generic_readlink() static vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments vfs: default to generic_readlink() vfs: replace calling i_op->readlink with vfs_readlink() proc/self: use generic_readlink ecryptfs: use vfs_get_link() bad_inode: add missing i_op initializers
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@@ -596,3 +596,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the
filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.
+--
+[recommended]
+ ->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs
+ to fake something for readlink(2).