From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE8AC433E9 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7B3206A1 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2390356AbhA0BF2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:05:28 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39240 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728441AbhAZUcZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:32:25 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 316B0C06174A; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:31:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lwn.net (unknown [IPv6:2601:281:8300:104d::5f6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2005F5F5A; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:31:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 2005F5F5A DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1611693103; bh=QNbhJWfpGylw9eOPfWr/bvmPVRtZhMmsoAiYwr5ysZ4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=fqgUKFSp0x9hxp+G5VfsABfssNrnF0CSZDquKRdQ2WoE6RzFeg8oBgiAA1N7lNoBI jsS2IXaXGrlaMKPUL5xdFeAjBLOjpJUdw5nL0gOB0xx+sA4RRhmxJ3lqOkntWiytvK DmOUj43EnvSuO0GL4DjcPeLEXFhQ8svL7BlQ7sOeN/y2eDki7WS5WoU+hFloS9kiyV j8ty3zSKlu27eXxh2mhGCY0zwZWZVLKU+gZR5M9g/NebJYg9XdvluN+1hz3rU4gmGi yRQA85mnUobCGKdDqRkvPaYw6hvSjnONjp7zmMgs+cNPd0W/45ylmmUFE/iqnT58i0 vUZo3nYmY0SxA== Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:31:41 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Fox Chen Cc: vegard.nossum@oracle.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rdunlap@infradead.org, grandmaster@al2klimov.de, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Message-ID: <20210126133141.27eb1c9d@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com> References: <20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:31 +0800 Fox Chen 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-foxhlchen@gmail.com/ Thanks, jon