[PATCH] update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (typo fixed)

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 15:13:44 EST


On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:34:36PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> Hi Borislav,
>
> On 6/24/2007, "Borislav Petkov" <bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> >
> > Original author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > - Last updated on October 28, 2005
> > + Last updated on Juni 24, 2007.
>
> There's a typo here so do s/Juni/June/g please before sending to Andrew.
> Other than that, looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Index: linux-2.6.22-rc5/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc5/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt.orig 2007-06-24 13:42:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc5/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt 2007-06-24 14:14:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@

Original author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

- Last updated on October 28, 2005
+ Last updated on June 24, 2007.

Copyright (C) 1999 Richard Gooch
Copyright (C) 2005 Pekka Enberg
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
struct file_system_type
-----------------------

-This describes the filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.13, the following
+This describes the filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following
members are defined:

struct file_system_type {
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@
struct module *owner;
struct file_system_type * next;
struct list_head fs_supers;
+ struct lock_class_key s_lock_key;
+ struct lock_class_key s_umount_key;
};

name: the name of the filesystem type, such as "ext2", "iso9660",
@@ -137,11 +139,12 @@

next: for internal VFS use: you should initialize this to NULL

+ s_lock_key, s_umount_key: lockdep-specific
+
The get_sb() method has the following arguments:

- struct super_block *sb: the superblock structure. This is partially
- initialized by the VFS and the rest must be initialized by the
- get_sb() method
+ struct file_system_type *fs_type: decribes the filesystem, partly initialized
+ by the specific filesystem code

int flags: mount flags

@@ -150,12 +153,13 @@
void *data: arbitrary mount options, usually comes as an ASCII
string

- int silent: whether or not to be silent on error
+ struct vfsmount *mnt: a vfs-internal representation of a mount point

The get_sb() method must determine if the block device specified
-in the superblock contains a filesystem of the type the method
-supports. On success the method returns the superblock pointer, on
-failure it returns NULL.
+in the dev_name and fs_type contains a filesystem of the type the method
+supports. If it succeeds in opening the named block device, it initializes a
+struct super_block descriptor for the filesystem contained by the block device.
+On failure it returns an error.

The most interesting member of the superblock structure that the
get_sb() method fills in is the "s_op" field. This is a pointer to

--
Regards/Gruß,
Boris.
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