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| author | Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> | 2025-07-23 14:21:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-08-11 14:52:40 +0200 |
| commit | 92becd1701a835d0807fa1f5c03b43762af27444 (patch) | |
| tree | 31f0648ade8978b0978deca04fae794fd55e8cb6 | |
| parent | f7d161c2804f3ad36bdc3222cb93c8fee67be98c (diff) | |
docs/vfs: Remove mentions to the old mount API helpers
Now that mount_bdev(), mount_nodev() and mount_single() have all been
removed, remove mentions to them in vfs.rst.
While we're at it, redirect people looking for mount API docs to
mount_api.rst (which documents the newer API).
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723132156.225410-4-pfalcato@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index 486a91633474..229eb90c96f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -209,31 +209,8 @@ method fills in is the "s_op" field. This is a pointer to a "struct super_operations" which describes the next level of the filesystem implementation. -Usually, a filesystem uses one of the generic mount() implementations -and provides a fill_super() callback instead. The generic variants are: - -``mount_bdev`` - mount a filesystem residing on a block device - -``mount_nodev`` - mount a filesystem that is not backed by a device - -``mount_single`` - mount a filesystem which shares the instance between all mounts - -A fill_super() callback implementation has the following arguments: - -``struct super_block *sb`` - the superblock structure. The callback must initialize this - properly. - -``void *data`` - arbitrary mount options, usually comes as an ASCII string (see - "Mount Options" section) - -``int silent`` - whether or not to be silent on error - +For more information on mounting (and the new mount API), see +Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.rst. The Superblock Object ===================== |