Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752850AbZIGWVN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:21:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752633AbZIGWVM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:21:12 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:44540 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752551AbZIGWVL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:21:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:20:20 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Linus Torvalds cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Linux Filesystem Mailing List , Eric Paris , Mimi Zohar Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Make 'check_acl()' a first-class filesystem op In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 27 On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:51:25 -0700 > > This is stage one in flattening out the callchains for the common > permission testing. Rather than have most filesystem implemnt their > inode->i_op->permission own function that just calls back down to the > VFS layers 'generic_permission()' with the per-filesystem ACL checking > function, the filesystem can just expose its 'check_acl' function > directly, and let the VFS layer do everything for it. > > This is all just preparatory - no filesystem actually enables this yet. > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: James Morris -- James Morris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/