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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:04:40 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix reiser4 compilation for ->permission changes
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> remove reiser4 permission.  It only ends up calling generic_permission
> with no additional bits so it's completely unessecary.

Actually not.  I'm lost in the CPP abuse in reiser4, sorry.  Could
someone of the namesys folks please remove all the perm_plugin mess?
->permission is the only access checking method for filesystems,
everything else is supposed to happen through LSM which may use xattr
storage in the filesystem.