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| author |   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2025-02-23 19:39:47 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2025-06-10 22:21:16 -0400 |
| commit | 05fb0e666495cda068c068a681ecbbf8e57324d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d7e3bde874c7710b24909b20e8042c57151ea92 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-linux-05fb0e666495cda068c068a681ecbbf8e57324d0.tar.xz wireguard-linux-05fb0e666495cda068c068a681ecbbf8e57324d0.zip | |
new helper: set_default_d_op()
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 3616d7161dab..b16139e91942 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1249,3 +1249,10 @@ Using try_lookup_noperm() will require linux/namei.h to be included. Calling conventions for ->d_automount() have changed; we should *not* grab an extra reference to new mount - it should be returned with refcount 1. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +If your filesystem sets the default dentry_operations, use set_default_d_op() +rather than manually setting sb->s_d_op. |