On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
