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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2017-03-31 18:31:25 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-04-03 01:05:56 -0400
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Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr()
Following the recent merge of statx, correct the documented prototype for the ->getattr() inode operation, and add an entry to the porting file. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -600,3 +600,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[recommended]
->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs
to fake something for readlink(2).
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->getattr() is now passed a struct path rather than a vfsmount and
+ dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments
+ to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not
+ supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments.