From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42204 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729228AbeGQAhg (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:37:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:07:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Viacheslav Dubeyko Cc: "Ernesto A." =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: drop ACL support Message-Id: <20180716170748.5264352de39271b67cc54143@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1531595463.5345.1.camel@dubeyko.com> References: <20180714190608.wtnmmtjqeyladkut@eaf> <1531595463.5345.1.camel@dubeyko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:11:03 -0700 Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote: > On Sat, 2018-07-14 at 16:06 -0300, Ernesto A. Fern�ndez wrote: > > The HFS+ Access Control Lists have not worked at all for the past > > five > > years, and nobody seems to have noticed. Besides, POSIX draft ACLs > > are > > not compatible with MacOS. Drop the feature entirely. > > > > Bugs need to be fixed but not to drop. Otherwise, it needs to drop the > whole HFS+ support from the kernel. Yes, we could make it depend on BROKEN and hope that someone comes along and fixes it - there's little cost in carrying such a thing. Or maybe it can never work for some reason and should indeed be dropped, I don't know. I was interested in understanding the reasoning behind hch's ack, but I can't find it on linux-fs-devel. Help?