Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index ed9fbc23ece0ae752ab3d079f26731517bda61ad..0742feebc6e221f9d79e400adab5feaba23098de 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected.
 ---
 [mandatory]
 
-BKL is also moved from around sb operations.  ->write_super() Is now called 
-without BKL held.  BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op
-functions.  If you don't need it, remove it.  
+BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into
+individual fs sb_op functions.  If you don't need it, remove it.
 
 ---
 [informational]
@@ -431,3 +430,14 @@ release it yourself.
        d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code
 misusing it.  Replacement: d_make_root(inode).  The difference is,
 d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.  
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+       The witch is dead!  Well, 2/3 of it, anyway.  ->d_revalidate() and
+->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
+--
+[mandatory]
+       ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous
+two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument.  Note that
+local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the
+object doesn't exist.  It's remote/distributed ones that might care...