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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index bdd025ceb763..5fb17f49f7a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -596,3 +596,13 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] ->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned. +-- +[recommended] + ->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs + to fake something for readlink(2). +-- +[mandatory] + ->getattr() is now passed a struct path rather than a vfsmount and + dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments + to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not + supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments. |