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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-11-01 18:53:27 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-11-01 18:53:27 (GMT)
commit55b42b5ca2dcf143465968697fe6c6503b05fca1 (patch)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/phy/marvell.c Simple overlapping changes in drivers/net/phy/marvell.c Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index fceff7c..20bf204 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+ int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -696,6 +697,12 @@ struct address_space_operations {
but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file
are and uses those addresses directly.
+ dentry_open: *WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use!* This is an
+ alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that this method may open
+ a file not necessarily originating from the same filesystem as the one
+ i_op->open() was called on. It may be useful for stacking filesystems
+ which want to allow native I/O directly on underlying files.
+
invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed