[PATCH v2] mount.2: note that mandatory locking is now fully deprecated

Jeff Layton
2021-10-03T12:23:33Z

This support has been fully removed from the kernel as of v5.15.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
man2/mount.2 | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

v2: use semantic newline, per Alejandro's suggestion

diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index bedd39e68a68..302baf6ebeb8 100644
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ this mount option requires the
capability and a kernel configured with the
.B CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
option.
+Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in v5.15 kernels, so
+this flag should be considered deprecated.
.TP
.B MS_NOATIME
Do not update access times for (all types of) files on this filesystem.
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