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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 2e0e4f0e0c6f..aee9aaf9f3df 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -914,3 +914,11 @@ Calling conventions for file_open_root() changed; now it takes struct path * instead of passing mount and dentry separately. For callers that used to pass <mnt, mnt->mnt_root> pair (i.e. the root of given mount), a new helper is provided - file_open_root_mnt(). In-tree users adjusted. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +no_llseek is gone; don't set .llseek to that - just leave it NULL instead. +Checks for "does that file have llseek(2), or should it fail with ESPIPE" +should be done by looking at FMODE_LSEEK in file->f_mode. |