This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point. The version that landed passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 3616d7161dab..e8c9f21582d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(). They now take a qstr instead of separate name and length. QSTR() can be used when strlen() is needed for the length. -For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the -hash might subsequently be needed. - These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent. They must ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that -- 2.49.0
