linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

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Message-ID: <875z0p4y8l.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:26:50 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, 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, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

On Tue, Apr 13 2021, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com> writes:
>
>> 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 some of the content is outdated. This patchset is intended to update
>> the document to make it more relevant to current codebase.
>
> Neil, have you had a chance to take a look at these?  I'm reluctant to
> apply them without your ack...

No I haven't, I'm sorry.  And I'm on leave at the moment so my attention
is mostly elsewhere.  However I'll try to make time to have a look
sometime in the next week or so.

Thanks for the prompt.

NeilBrown

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