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Message-Id: <1471961132-1675-8-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:05:32 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index b1bd05ea66b2..1ab28d9b612a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -592,3 +592,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
 	work just as well; if it's something more complicated, use dentry->d_parent.
 	Just be careful not to assume that fetching it more than once will yield
 	the same value - in RCU mode it could change under you.
+--
+[mandatory]
+	->rename() has an added flags argument.  Any flags not handled by the
+        filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.
-- 
2.5.5