[PATCH 2/5] VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst

From: NeilBrown
Date: Sun Jun 08 2025 - 19:11:39 EST


This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which
passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point. The version that landed
passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 3616d7161dab..e8c9f21582d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(). They now
take a qstr instead of separate name and length. QSTR() can be used
when strlen() is needed for the length.

-For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the
-hash might subsequently be needed.
-
These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously
checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent. They must
ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that
--
2.49.0