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

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:23:03 +0800
From:   Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
To:     Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:     vegard.nossum@...cle.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        grandmaster@...klimov.de, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 4:31 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
>
> 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 some of the content was outdated.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


FYI, To help review the patches I marked & annotated all the places
I've changed.

you can check the link:
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Flatest%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__


thanks,
fox