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d_path: kerneldoc cleanup
authorJan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:38:32 +0000 (19:38 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:17:08 +0000 (21:17 -0800)
Move and update d_path() kernel API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/dcache.c

index 688aac951d1160abec6b96cd4e61798b08a0df12..170efbcb1a9b5be6639a53946812ce26f00554f3 100644 (file)
@@ -1843,9 +1843,22 @@ Elong:
        return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 }
 
-/* write full pathname into buffer and return start of pathname */
-char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
-                               char *buf, int buflen)
+/**
+ * d_path - return the path of a dentry
+ * @dentry: dentry to report
+ * @vfsmnt: vfsmnt to which the dentry belongs
+ * @buf: buffer to return value in
+ * @buflen: buffer length
+ *
+ * Convert a dentry into an ASCII path name. If the entry has been deleted
+ * the string " (deleted)" is appended. Note that this is ambiguous.
+ *
+ * Returns the buffer or an error code if the path was too long.
+ *
+ * "buflen" should be positive. Caller holds the dcache_lock.
+ */
+char *d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
+            char *buf, int buflen)
 {
        char *res;
        struct path root;