From: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, vegard.nossum@oracle.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
rdunlap@infradead.org, grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:30:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC2o3D+7edK-5dx_pEbq40r3WtLFMB_=HTXnJcjpus3GGbJ+WA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210126072443.33066-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:25 PM Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 some of the content was outdated. This patchset is intended to update
> the document to make it more relevant to current codebase.
>
>
> Fox Chen (12):
> docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
> docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth
> docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
> docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
> docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
> docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
> docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
> docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
> docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
> docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
> docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
> docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
>
> Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 146 ++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.0
>
To help review the patches, I annotated and highlighted changes using hypothesis
you can check the current docs:
https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Flatest%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__
the docs after patches applied:
https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinux-docs.54fox.com%2Flinux_docs%2Ffilesystems%2Fpath-lookup.html&group=__world__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-26 7:24 [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 01/12] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part Fox Chen
2021-01-26 14:03 ` Greg KH
2021-01-27 1:11 ` Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:20 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:24 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 03/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:28 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 04/12] docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:50 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 05/12] docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 06/12] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 07/12] docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:53 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 08/12] docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:50 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 09/12] docs: path-lookup: no get_link() Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 10/12] docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 11/12] docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:24 ` [PATCH 12/12] docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Fox Chen
2021-01-26 7:30 ` Fox Chen [this message]
2021-01-26 20:31 ` [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Jonathan Corbet
2021-01-28 1:23 ` Fox Chen
2021-01-28 3:58 ` NeilBrown
2021-01-29 1:29 ` Fox Chen
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