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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-02-28 11:34:57 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-03-05 11:52:50 +0100
commitbe6690199719a2968628713a746002fda14bd595 (patch)
tree63491fd83924f1619180a0c00c3dba5780da8247
parent21432f9b5eda2f531dc029d8422280106834d5f7 (diff)
doc: fix inline emphasis warning
Fix a warning spotted by linux-next build (htmldocs): Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst:1186: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. [docutils] Introduced by commit 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index fe0581271d5b..6817614e0820 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1183,12 +1183,11 @@ LOOK_CREATE or LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET.
** mandatory**
-->mkdir() now returns a 'struct dentry *'. If the created inode is
-found to already be in cache and have a dentry (often IS_ROOT()), it will
-need to be spliced into the given name in place of the given dentry.
-That dentry now needs to be returned. If the original dentry is used,
-NULL should be returned. Any error should be returned with
-ERR_PTR().
+->mkdir() now returns a dentry. If the created inode is found to
+already be in cache and have a dentry (often IS_ROOT()), it will need to
+be spliced into the given name in place of the given dentry. That dentry
+now needs to be returned. If the original dentry is used, NULL should
+be returned. Any error should be returned with ERR_PTR().
In general, filesystems which use d_instantiate_new() to install the new
inode can safely return NULL. Filesystems which may not have an I_NEW inode