linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 18/23] fs: remove a comment pointing to the removed mandatory-locking file

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Message-ID: <f352a2e4b50a8678a8ddef5177702ecf9040490f.camel@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:50:21 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/23] fs: remove a comment pointing to the removed
 mandatory-locking file

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:04 +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The mandatory file locking got removed due to its problems, but
> there's still a comment inside fs/locks.c pointing to the removed
> doc.
> 
> Remove it.
> 
> Fixes: f7e33bdbd6d1 ("fs: remove mandatory file locking support")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
> To mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover.
> See [PATCH v3 00/23] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1634630485.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org/
> 
>  fs/locks.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index d397394633be..94feadcdab4e 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
>   *
>   *  Initial implementation of mandatory locks. SunOS turned out to be
>   *  a rotten model, so I implemented the "obvious" semantics.
> - *  See 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' for details.
>   *  Andy Walker (andy@...aker.kvaerner.no), April 06, 1996.
>   *
>   *  Don't allow mandatory locks on mmap()'ed files. Added simple functions to

Thanks Mauro. I'll pick this into my locks branch, so it should make
v5.16 as well.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>