Re: [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 2025-06-09 at 09:09 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which
> passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point.  The version that landed
> passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> index 3616d7161dab..e8c9f21582d1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> @@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked().  They now
>  take a qstr instead of separate name and length.  QSTR() can be used
>  when strlen() is needed for the length.
>  
> -For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the
> -hash might subsequently be needed.
> -
>  These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously
>  checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent.  They must
>  ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>