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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-27 11:03:58 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-27 11:03:58 +0200
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vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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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.
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