From aadfa8019e8114539cfa0b1eb2e5a9c83094a590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:03:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b1bd05ea66b2..1ab28d9b612a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -592,3 +592,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead. work just as well; if it's something more complicated, use dentry->d_parent. Just be careful not to assume that fetching it more than once will yield the same value - in RCU mode it could change under you. +-- +[mandatory] + ->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the + filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned. -- 2.20.1