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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2025-02-23 20:18:15 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2025-06-11 13:39:52 -0400
commit691fb82ca6ccdcdb9e60e754b55659271d5280e7 (patch)
tree8e1316e8b13c3bdb13a4278931dfed387722fc6c /Documentation/filesystems
parenta97dc087da06b69ae976765d59810ca705e8dae1 (diff)
make d_set_d_op() static
Convert the last user (d_alloc_pseudo()) and be done with that. Any out-of-tree filesystem using it should switch to d_splice_alias_ops() or, better yet, check whether it really needs to have ->d_op vary among its dentries. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -1256,3 +1256,14 @@ an extra reference to new mount - it should be returned with refcount 1.
If your filesystem sets the default dentry_operations, use set_default_d_op()
rather than manually setting sb->s_d_op.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+d_set_d_op() is no longer exported (or public, for that matter); _if_
+your filesystem really needed that, make use of d_splice_alias_ops()
+to have them set. Better yet, think hard whether you need different
+->d_op for different dentries - if not, just use set_default_d_op()
+at mount time and be done with that. Currently procfs is the only
+thing that really needs ->d_op varying between dentries.