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Subject[PATCH 02/12] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() parth
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No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called.
Related commit: c99687a03a78775f77d57fe9b07af4c8ec3dd03c

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
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Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index e778db767120..2ad96e1e3c49 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is
different from the previous ``vfsmount``. It then calls
-``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
+``step_into()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.

This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new
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2.30.0
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