From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>, neilb@suse.de
Cc: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>,
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,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:39:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg1fqdgt.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210527091618.287093-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com> writes:
> 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 some of the content is outdated. This patchset is intended to update
> the document to make it more relevant to current codebase.
OK, I have applied this set. I took the liberty of making the changes
suggested by Neil to patch 10.
Thanks for doing this work, and thanks to Neil for reviewing it!
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 9:16 [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] docs: path-lookup: no get_link() Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:31 ` NeilBrown
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Fox Chen
2021-05-27 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:35 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs NeilBrown
2021-06-18 1:00 ` Fox Chen
2021-06-18 17:39 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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