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Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:37:00 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, agruen@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:02 +0100, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> 
> > Probably the documentation belongs in man pages.  Which I think they've
> > done, but alas the git repos (on kernel.org) aren't accesible right
> > now....
> 
> There is also an in-kernel API that filesystems have to deal with if they want
> to support richacls.  See the ext4 patches...  There should probably be one
> document describing how to 'use' ACLs of all kinds from a filesystem internals
> point of view somewhere under Documentation/filesystems/
> 

setattr callback should call richacl_chmod when called with ATTR_MODE
and we should have new xattr callbacks for "system.richacl" . Those are
the only two changes needed for file system.

-aneesh
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