vfs: bury ->get_sb()

[linux-2.6-block.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index dfbcd1b00b0ae3eac43f0744646f44a88f81cfcc..0c986c9e8519ad32d455b1818436c61aab8434c6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -394,3 +394,10 @@ file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode.
 Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set,
 so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of
 a file off.
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+       ->get_sb() is gone.  Switch to use of ->mount().  Typically it's just
+a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the
+function type.  If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root
+to some pointer to returning that pointer.  On errors return ERR_PTR(...).