Re: [PATCH v2] mount.2: note that mandatory locking is now fully deprecated

"Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 3 Oct 2021 14:34:51 +0200

Hi Jeff,

On 10/3/21 2:23 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
This support has been fully removed from the kernel as of v5.15.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

Both patches applied.

Thanks,

Alex

---
  man2/mount.2 | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

v2: use semantic newline, per Alejandro's suggestion

diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index bedd39e68a68..302baf6ebeb8 100644
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ this mount option requires the
  capability and a kernel configured with the
  .B CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
  option.
+Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in v5.15 kernels, so
+this flag should be considered deprecated.
  .TP
  .B MS_NOATIME
  Do not update access times for (all types of) files on this filesystem.



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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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