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Message-ID: <20250608230952.20539-3-neil@brown.name>
Date: Mon,  9 Jun 2025 09:09:34 +1000
From: NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>
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Subject: [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst

This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which
passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point.  The version that landed
passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 3616d7161dab..e8c9f21582d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked().  They now
 take a qstr instead of separate name and length.  QSTR() can be used
 when strlen() is needed for the length.
 
-For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the
-hash might subsequently be needed.
-
 These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously
 checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent.  They must
 ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that
-- 
2.49.0