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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-08-08 16:41:23 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-08-08 16:41:23 +0900
commit4791d63bd40ec63c533060707dae0232b9969dc0 (patch)
tree8e10fe91cea556c10f7d211b65c5f6bdd7ffeb55 /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parentb3623080ff6974e696710b6c6eb4cdbf2bbab347 (diff)
parent322a8b034003c0d46d39af85bf24fee27b902f48 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into rmobile-latest
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@@ -407,10 +407,11 @@ to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...).
--
[mandatory]
- ->permission(), generic_permission() and ->check_acl() have lost flags
+ ->permission() and generic_permission()have lost flags
argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask.
- generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; if you want
-non-NULL to be used for that inode, put it into ->i_op->check_acl.
+ generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; ACL checking
+has been taken to VFS and filesystems need to provide a non-NULL ->i_op->get_acl
+to read an ACL from disk.
--
[mandatory]