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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index b16139e91942..579f17df46cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1256,3 +1256,14 @@ an extra reference to new mount - it should be returned with refcount 1. If your filesystem sets the default dentry_operations, use set_default_d_op() rather than manually setting sb->s_d_op. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +d_set_d_op() is no longer exported (or public, for that matter); _if_ +your filesystem really needed that, make use of d_splice_alias_ops() +to have them set. Better yet, think hard whether you need different +->d_op for different dentries - if not, just use set_default_d_op() +at mount time and be done with that. Currently procfs is the only +thing that really needs ->d_op varying between dentries. |