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

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-03T12:34:57Z

Hi Jeff,

On 10/3/21 2:23 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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>

Both patches applied.

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
> 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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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/