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| author |   Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-09-15 15:08:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-09-15 15:08:18 +0200 |
| commit | e060c38434b2caa78efe7cedaff4191040b65a15 (patch) | |
| tree | 407361230bf6733f63d8e788e4b5e6566ee04818 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs | |
| parent | viacam: Don't explode if pci_find_bus() returns NULL (diff) | |
| parent | mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in find_get_pages (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-e060c38434b2caa78efe7cedaff4191040b65a15.tar.xz linux-dev-e060c38434b2caa78efe7cedaff4191040b65a15.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches
based on more recent version of the tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/nfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index 87019d2b5981..09994c247289 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting @@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must: 1/ provide the filehandle fragment routines described below. 2/ make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name. - Typically the ->lookup routine will end with a: + + If inode is NULL, d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) is eqivalent to + + d_add(dentry, inode), NULL + + Similarly, d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err) + + Typically the ->lookup routine will simply end with a: return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); } |