linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] swap: Remove obsolete sentence

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Message-ID: <20170826155601.7eb95fe1@lwn.net>
Date:   Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:56:01 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap: Remove obsolete sentence

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:29:00 +0300
Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com> wrote:

> Currently there are no ->swap_{in,out} method in address_space_operations
> sructure definition, so the statement that anything is going to be proxied
> through them is wrong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> index 73e7d91f03dc..405a3df759b3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
> @@ -829,9 +829,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
>    swap_activate: Called when swapon is used on a file to allocate
>  	space if necessary and pin the block lookup information in
>  	memory. A return value of zero indicates success,
> -	in which case this file can be used to back swapspace. The
> -	swapspace operations will be proxied to this address space's
> -	->swap_{out,in} methods.  
> +	in which case this file can be used to back swapspace.

Applied to the docs tree, thanks.

jon