This series consolidates the various cut'n'pasted Posix ACL implementations into a single common one based on the ->get_acl method Linus added a while ago and a new ->set_acl counterpart. This 1600 lines of code and provides a single place to implement various nasty little gems of the semantics. Unfortunately the 9p code is still left out - it implements the ACLs in two very weird ways, one using the common code but on the client only, and one pasing things straight through to the server. We could easily convert it to the new code on the write side if ->set_acl took a dentry, but there's no cance to do that on the ->get_acl side. Ideas how to handle it welcome. After that we'd be ready to never go into the fs for the ACL attributes and branch straight to the ACL code below the syscall, repairing the old API braindamage of overloading ACLs onto the xattrs. Btw, I'd be almost tempted to do that for all system.* attrs. Besides Posix ACLs we only have CIFS and NFSv4 ACL variants, weird advice crap in f2fs, and the magic mushroom proto name on sockets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
