Unverified Commit be669019 authored by Christian Brauner's avatar Christian Brauner
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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

  88d5baf6 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")

Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: 88d5baf6 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent 21432f9b

Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst

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@@ -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