Re: [PATCH v3 18/23] fs: remove a comment pointing to the removed mandatory-locking file

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 06:50:27 EST


On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:04 +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The mandatory file locking got removed due to its problems, but
> there's still a comment inside fs/locks.c pointing to the removed
> doc.
>
> Remove it.
>
> Fixes: f7e33bdbd6d1 ("fs: remove mandatory file locking support")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> To mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover.
> See [PATCH v3 00/23] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1634630485.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> fs/locks.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index d397394633be..94feadcdab4e 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
> *
> * Initial implementation of mandatory locks. SunOS turned out to be
> * a rotten model, so I implemented the "obvious" semantics.
> - * See 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' for details.
> * Andy Walker (andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), April 06, 1996.
> *
> * Don't allow mandatory locks on mmap()'ed files. Added simple functions to

Thanks Mauro. I'll pick this into my locks branch, so it should make
v5.16 as well.
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>