2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index b6b55a9cffee..fa2db081505e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -467,3 +467,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
 [mandatory]
         d_materialise_unique() is gone; d_splice_alias() does everything you
         need now.  Remember that they have opposite orders of arguments ;-/
+--
+[mandatory]
+        f_dentry is gone; use f_path.dentry, or, better yet, see if you can avoid
+        it entirely.
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 1c12c681803f..1a8bb3c023a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -789,7 +789,6 @@ struct file {
                 struct rcu_head         fu_rcuhead;
         } f_u;
         struct path             f_path;
-#define f_dentry        f_path.dentry
         struct inode            *f_inode;       /* cached value */
         const struct file_operations    *f_op;