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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2013-09-09 07:16:41 -0700
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-09-10 17:06:45 -0400
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fs: remove vfs_follow_link
For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well. Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link to match its only caller better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -451,3 +451,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
--
[mandatory]
->readdir() is gone now; switch to ->iterate()
+[mandatory]
+ vfs_follow_link has been removed. Filesystems must use nd_set_link
+ from ->follow_link for normal symlinks, or nd_jump_link for magic
+ /proc/<pid> style links.