linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:33 +0800
From:   Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
To:     corbet@....net, vegard.nossum@...cle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth

No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called.
Related commit: c99687a03a78775f77d57fe9b07af4c8ec3dd03c

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index e778db767120..2ad96e1e3c49 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
 ``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
 reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is
 different from the previous ``vfsmount``.  It then calls
-``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
+``step_into()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
 ``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.
 
 This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new
-- 
2.30.0