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authorArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2012-07-25 19:12:00 +0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-08-04 01:25:20 +0400
commit34e5053fbe88800f5c2c6cbc849abb5a9f390974 (patch)
tree07a5c1a26a2d3d59123115744ee169fb31a5edb9 /Documentation
parentf0cd2dbb6cf387c11f87265462e370bb5469299e (diff)
downloadlinux-34e5053fbe88800f5c2c6cbc849abb5a9f390974.tar.xz
Documentation: get rid of write_super
The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the references to 'write_super' from various pieces of the kernel documentation. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
4 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
index 3fca32c41927..25b58efd955d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ all your transactions.
</para>
<para>
-Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5)
-you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object.
+Then at umount time , in your put_super() you can then call journal_destroy()
+to clean up your in-core journal object.
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 0f103e39b4f6..e540a24e5d06 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ prototypes:
int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
- void (*write_super) (struct super_block *);
int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
@@ -136,7 +135,6 @@ write_inode:
drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
put_super: write
-write_super: read
sync_fs: read
freeze_fs: write
unfreeze_fs: write
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 2bef2b3843d1..0742feebc6e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected.
---
[mandatory]
-BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called
-without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op
-functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
+BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into
+individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it.
---
[informational]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 065aa2dc0835..2ee133e030c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct super_operations {
void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
- void (*write_super) (struct super_block *);
int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
@@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ or bottom half).
put_super: called when the VFS wishes to free the superblock
(i.e. unmount). This is called with the superblock lock held
- write_super: called when the VFS superblock needs to be written to
- disc. This method is optional
-
sync_fs: called when VFS is writing out all dirty data associated with
a superblock. The second parameter indicates whether the method
should wait until the write out has been completed. Optional.