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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b88f356a5919..2dcccf3d8a3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -230,3 +230,21 @@ anything from oops to silent memory corruption. Use bdev_read_only(bdev) instead of is_read_only(kdev). The latter is still alive, but only because of the mess in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c. As soon as it gets fixed is_read_only() will die. + +--- +[mandatory] + + is_read_only() is gone; use bdev_read_only() instead. + +--- +[mandatory] + + destroy_buffers() is gone; use invalidate_bdev(). + +--- +[mandatory] + + fsync_dev() is gone; use fsync_bdev(). NOTE: lvm breakage is +deliberate; as soon as struct block_device * is propagated in a reasonable +way by that code fixing will become trivial; until then nothing can be +done. |