On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:31 +0800
Fox Chen <foxhlc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Path lookup is a very complex subject in VFS. The path-lookup
> document provides a very detailed guidance to help people understand
> how path lookup works in the kernel.This document was originally
> written based on three lwn articles five years ago. As times goes by,
> some of the content was outdated. This patchset is intended to update
> the document to make it more relevant to current codebase.
>
>
> Fox Chen (12):
> docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
> docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth
> docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
> docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
> docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
> docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
> docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
> docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
> docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
> docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
> docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
> docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
>
> Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 146 ++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
Neil Brown (copied) is the original author of this document; I'd really
like his feedback on these changes. Neil, the full set is at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlc...@gmail.com/
Thanks,
jon
