linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

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Message-ID: <20210126133141.27eb1c9d@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:31:41 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
Cc:     vegard.nossum@...cle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:24:31 +0800
Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com> wrote:

> The Path lookup is a very complex subject in VFS. The path-lookup
> document provides a very detailed guidance to help people understand
> how path lookup works in the kernel.This document was originally
> written based on three lwn articles five years ago. As times goes by,
> some of the content was outdated. This patchset is intended to update
> the document to make it more relevant to current codebase.
> 
> 
> Fox Chen (12):
>   docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
>   docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth
>   docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
>   docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
>   docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
>   docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
>   docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
>   docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
>   docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
>   docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
>   docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
>   docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
> 
>  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 146 ++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

Neil Brown (copied) is the original author of this document; I'd really
like his feedback on these changes.  Neil, the full set is at:

	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com/

Thanks,

jon