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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-17 09:07:37 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-17 09:07:37 +0200
commit15a0654851382faaf41a8da6d4e10201091246b9 (patch)
tree810678e1b3d71b5b6e3c2422c6dddc6d3065caed /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent7f1534e172f5eb9c215a25d73ee9ef57eb1582ba (diff)
parent4f7d029b9bf009fbee76bb10c0c4351a1870d2f3 (diff)
Merge 4.11-rc7 into tty-next
We want the tty patch revert in here to handle merges and future work properly. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -600,3 +600,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[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.