* [PATCH] vfs: fix typo in s_op->alloc_inode() documentation
@ 2014-08-14 11:25 Kirill Smelkov
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From: Kirill Smelkov @ 2014-08-14 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Viro; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, Kirill Smelkov, Pekka Enberg
The function which calls s_op->alloc_inode() is not inode_alloc(), but
instead alloc_inode() which lives in fs/inode.c .
The typo was there from the beginning from 5ea626aa (VFS: update
documentation, 2005) - there was no standalone inode_alloc() for the
whole kernel history.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 61d65cc..02a766c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ noted. This means that most methods can block safely. All methods are
only called from a process context (i.e. not from an interrupt handler
or bottom half).
- alloc_inode: this method is called by inode_alloc() to allocate memory
+ alloc_inode: this method is called by alloc_inode() to allocate memory
for struct inode and initialize it. If this function is not
defined, a simple 'struct inode' is allocated. Normally
alloc_inode will be used to allocate a larger structure which
--
2.1.0.rc2.234.ge4c5f60
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