[PATCH] vfs: Minor documentation fix

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Thu Jun 04 2015 - 19:12:24 EST


From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>

The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index e69274d..7a34c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.

- permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
-on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
-exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.

--
[mandatory]
--
2.4.2

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