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From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To:     linux-man@vger.kernel.org
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        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] mount.2: note that mandatory locking is now fully deprecated
Date:   Fri,  1 Oct 2021 07:57:24 -0400
Message-Id: <20211001115724.16392-1-jlayton@kernel.org>
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This support has been fully removed from the kernel as of v5.15.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
 man2/mount.2 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index bedd39e68a68..a7ae65fb0142 100644
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ this mount option requires the
 .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
 capability and a kernel configured with the
 .B CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
-option.
+option. Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in v5.15 kernels, so
+this flag should be considered deprecated.
 .TP
 .B MS_NOATIME
 Do not update access times for (all types of) files on this filesystem.
-- 
2.31.1