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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt8
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
index 71b63c2b9841..a8f1a58e3692 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
@@ -93,13 +93,15 @@ The Amiga protection flags RWEDRWEDHSPARWED are handled as follows:
- R maps to r for user, group and others. On directories, R implies x.
- - If both W and D are allowed, w will be set.
+ - W maps to w.
- E maps to x.
- - H and P are always retained and ignored under Linux.
+ - D is ignored.
- - A is always reset when a file is written to.
+ - H, S and P are always retained and ignored under Linux.
+
+ - A is cleared when a file is written to.
User id and group id will be used unless set[gu]id are given as mount
options. Since most of the Amiga file systems are single user systems
@@ -111,11 +113,13 @@ Linux -> Amiga:
The Linux rwxrwxrwx file mode is handled as follows:
- - r permission will set R for user, group and others.
+ - r permission will allow R for user, group and others.
+
+ - w permission will allow W for user, group and others.
- - w permission will set W and D for user, group and others.
+ - x permission of the user will allow E for plain files.
- - x permission of the user will set E for plain files.
+ - D will be allowed for user, group and others.
- All other flags (suid, sgid, ...) are ignored and will
not be retained.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 24da7b32c489..1218a5e2975c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -211,12 +211,10 @@ Other notes:
is 4096.
- show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
- buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
+ buffer.
-- show() must not use snprintf() when formatting the value to be
- returned to user space. If you can guarantee that an overflow
- will never happen you can use sprintf() otherwise you must use
- scnprintf().
+- show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting
+ the value to be returned to user space.
- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.