On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:09:22PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 07:30:48PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > > There's no support for richacl in Linux and based on information in the > > links will never be. Remove all related files and support code. > > > > References: > > - https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/NFS4_ACL_overview#Linux > > - https://lwn.net/Articles/661357/ (article, 2015) > > - https://lwn.net/Articles/661078/ (patches, 2015) > > - https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/richacl/ > > - http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/ (n/a anymore) > > > > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Thanks! The richacl testing was brought in by: > > commit 73f9e47abdc58f39b7e39b3729bc88db624c9771 > Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Jun 28 14:47:26 2016 +0200 > > generic: Add richacl tests > > Looks like we were too hurry to merge the test things before the kernel > patchset get merged. > > Sorry I didn't learn about the details. From above links, I can see how > we tried to implement the richacl, but I didn't see how we denied it and > never have it in the future. Is there any record (e.g. an email reply) to > learn about the "history"? There were many revisions of the patches, talks at LSF and LWN articles over the years so I'd consider it a common knowledge. Web search leads me to lkml.org links that does not work today so I can't point you to a mail where Christop said a clear 'no, never'.
