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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:50:22 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:45:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:04:21 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
> 
> .. and streamline 'check_acl()' semantics for lowlevel file systems.
> 
> This removes the 'check_acl' argument from 'generic_permission()', and
> just makes the rule be that it should be in inode->i_op, whether you
> have your own filesystem-specific ->permission callback or not.

Al has alread done that in his for-next tree, see:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=178ea73521d64ba41d7aa5488fb9f549c6d4507d