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Message-Id: <1433459482-4129-1-git-send-email-andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri,  5 Jun 2015 01:11:22 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Minor documentation fix

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>

The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index e69274d..7a34c7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
 returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
 
-	permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
-on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
-exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+	permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK).  See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
  
 --
 [mandatory]
-- 
2.4.2

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