linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/12] docs: path-lookup: no get

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Message-ID: <87v98j126r.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:41:00 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, corbet@....net,
        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 09/12] docs: path-lookup: no get_link()

On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Fox Chen wrote:

> no get_link() anymore. we have step_into() and pick_link().
>
> walk_component() will call step_into(), in turn call pick_link,
> and return symlink name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> index 8ab95dd9046e..0d41c61f7e4f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> @@ -1103,12 +1103,10 @@ doesn't need to notice.  Getting this ``name`` variable on and off the
>  stack is very straightforward; pushing and popping the references is
>  a little more complex.
>  
> -When a symlink is found, ``walk_component()`` returns the value ``1``
> -(``0`` is returned for any other sort of success, and a negative number
> -is, as usual, an error indicator).  This causes ``get_link()`` to be
> -called; it then gets the link from the filesystem.  Providing that
> -operation is successful, the old path ``name`` is placed on the stack,
> -and the new value is used as the ``name`` for a while.  When the end of
> +When a symlink is found, ``walk_component()`` calls ``pick_link()``,

walk_component() calls pick_link() via step_into()
??

> +it then gets the link from the filesystem returning new path ``name``.

"which returns the link from the filesystem."

With those changes (assuming you agree with them)

 Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown


> +Providing that operation is successful, the old path ``name`` is placed on the
> +stack, and the new value is used as the ``name`` for a while.  When the end of
>  the path is found (i.e. ``*name`` is ``'\0'``) the old ``name`` is restored
>  off the stack and path walking continues.
>  
> -- 
> 2.30.2

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