Re: [PATCH 00/12] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:25 PM Fox Chen <foxhlchen@xxxxxxxxx> 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 some of the content was outdated.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__



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