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[7/7] vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting

Message ID 1471961132-1675-8-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Miklos Szeredi Aug. 23, 2016, 2:05 p.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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 Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 ++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index b1bd05ea66b2..1ab28d9b612a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
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@@ -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.