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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-12 22:24:21 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-11-19 13:01:20 -0500
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switch d_materialise_unique() users to d_splice_alias()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -463,3 +463,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
of the in-tree instances did). inode_hash_lock is still held,
of course, so they are still serialized wrt removal from inode hash,
as well as wrt set() callback of iget5_locked().
+--
+[mandatory]
+ d_materialise_unique() is gone; d_splice_alias() does everything you
+ need now. Remember that they have opposite orders of arguments ;-/
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