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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
index 48b95d04f7..4cc657d743 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
@@ -295,7 +295,6 @@ through which it can issue requests and negotiate::
struct netfs_request_ops {
void (*init_request)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq, struct file *file);
void (*free_request)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq);
- int (*begin_cache_operation)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq);
void (*expand_readahead)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq);
bool (*clamp_length)(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq);
void (*issue_read)(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq);
@@ -317,20 +316,6 @@ The operations are as follows:
[Optional] This is called as the request is being deallocated so that the
filesystem can clean up any state it has attached there.
- * ``begin_cache_operation()``
-
- [Optional] This is called to ask the network filesystem to call into the
- cache (if present) to initialise the caching state for this read. The netfs
- library module cannot access the cache directly, so the cache should call
- something like fscache_begin_read_operation() to do this.
-
- The cache gets to store its state in ->cache_resources and must set a table
- of operations of its own there (though of a different type).
-
- This should return 0 on success and an error code otherwise. If an error is
- reported, the operation may proceed anyway, just without local caching (only
- out of memory and interruption errors cause failure here).
-
* ``expand_readahead()``
[Optional] This is called to allow the filesystem to expand the size of a
@@ -460,14 +445,14 @@ When implementing a local cache to be used by the read helpers, two things are
required: some way for the network filesystem to initialise the caching for a
read request and a table of operations for the helpers to call.
-The network filesystem's ->begin_cache_operation() method is called to set up a
-cache and this must call into the cache to do the work. If using fscache, for
-example, the cache would call::
+To begin a cache operation on an fscache object, the following function is
+called::
int fscache_begin_read_operation(struct netfs_io_request *rreq,
struct fscache_cookie *cookie);
-passing in the request pointer and the cookie corresponding to the file.
+passing in the request pointer and the cookie corresponding to the file. This
+fills in the cache resources mentioned below.
The netfs_io_request object contains a place for the cache to hang its
state::