On Tue, Jan 26 2021, Fox Chen wrote: > No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called. > Related commit: c99687a03a78775f77d57fe9b07af4c8ec3dd03c > > Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlc...@gmail.com> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst > b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst > index e778db767120..2ad96e1e3c49 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst > @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` > creates a new > ``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a > reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is > different from the previous ``vfsmount``. It then calls > -``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the > +``step_into()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the > ``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.
The logic describe here is now embodied by the code in step_into(), so the change doesn't make the description any more correct. Possibly you need to change the hero of the story from walk_component() to step_into(), but that is just a guess. NeilBrown > > This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new > -- > 2.30.0
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