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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2011-07-28 17:25:46 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2011-07-28 17:25:46 +0200
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parentarm/dt: tegra devicetree support (diff)
parentdmaengine: imx-sdma: add device tree probe support (diff)
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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]