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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... |