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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-27 11:03:58 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-27 11:03:58 +0200
commit18fc84dafaac1fd63d5e6e600058eada8fc7914b (patch)
treed48fc9b796c75e21ed5fbc7777755dd824941b46 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
parentfs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 (diff)
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vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
No in-tree uses remain. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 9ace359d6cc5..c641e0c37a07 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -345,8 +345,6 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t);
int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t);
- int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
- struct inode *, struct dentry *);
int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int);
@@ -416,11 +414,8 @@ otherwise noted.
rename: called by the rename(2) system call to rename the object to
have the parent and name given by the second inode and dentry.
- rename2: this has an additional flags argument compared to rename.
- If no flags are supported by the filesystem then this method
- need not be implemented. If some flags are supported then the
- filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or unknown
- flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
+ The filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or
+ unknown flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
(1) RENAME_NOREPLACE: this flag indicates that if the target
of the rename exists the rename should fail with -EEXIST
instead of replacing the target. The VFS already checks for