linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs: Add some struct file refcounting information

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:06:39 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs: Add some struct file refcounting information

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:02:28 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> Al Viro's recent "braindump" on how struct file refcounting works is too
> good to lose, so let's capture it in Documentation/.  There are two changes
> here:
> 
>  - Clean up the filesystem book, move stuff around, and generally try to
>    create some order here.  No text changes other than some connecting
>    text.
> 
>  - Bring in Al's text, with a fair amount of language tweaking and later
>    corrections applied.
> 
> Hopefully this is just the beginning.

I meant to add that, should anybody be curious to see the formatted
version of this work, it's at:

  https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/filesystems/index.html

jon