From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E589BC48BE8 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD83610CA for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233490AbhFRRls (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:41:48 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:46132 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231685AbhFRRlq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:41:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:281:8300:104d::5f6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB69B740; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:39:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net DB69B740 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1624037971; bh=gsnYTTUNPq7lcsD/q70c06KXBhxh/NRTapjcVEE1M1Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=SNRXGDBlEkKhChKV6q+keZ+5aN9HGHyi6ZKJplg7dqjm17XyugB2/4HiJXdrLjqpi BloPIlpoIIFG41flgCdqbZtU0l8SJR/0YvFbsYfNZjsKM2LatBvfJkCiDTuTRRPyjw g5xvXVqiZFWnZUgsa9uek+ydp36gG2HLKIgJUKsZLFzi/Q4Aw6vExB4Y7Z3K6/PDiu 5lkOTfWAd8zGVChD7So1LJFTKvOo1EDMaeRIWWnNriyXbajEJTPpNffECDycsfcjyu FebPIx+P5xv1C769HmNM1luFmlXXV1bZqg8B1dclQBr+ci7NAsJh2d5j+yPAIiQUaf qoFXy2zfUmh/A== From: Jonathan Corbet To: Fox Chen , neilb@suse.de Cc: Fox Chen , vegard.nossum@oracle.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rdunlap@infradead.org, grandmaster@al2klimov.de, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs In-Reply-To: <20210527091618.287093-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com> References: <20210527091618.287093-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:39:30 -0600 Message-ID: <87sg1fqdgt.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fox Chen writes: > The Path lookup is a very complex subject in VFS. The path-lookup > document provides a very detailed guidance to help people understand > how path lookup works in the kernel. This document was originally > written based on three lwn articles five years ago. As times goes by, > some of the content is outdated. This patchset is intended to update > the document to make it more relevant to current codebase. OK, I have applied this set. I took the liberty of making the changes suggested by Neil to patch 10. Thanks for doing this work, and thanks to Neil for reviewing it! jon