linux-ext4 - [PATCH] Documentation: ext4.rst: Remove obsolete descriptions of noacl/nouser

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Message-Id: <20240728003433.2566649-1-stefan.tauner@gmx.at>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:34:33 +0200
From: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@....at>
To: corbet@....net
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@....at>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: ext4.rst: Remove obsolete descriptions of noacl/nouser_xattr options

These have been deprecated for a decade[1] and removed two years ago[2].
1: f70486055ee351158bd6999f3965ad378b52c694
2: 2d544ec923dbe5fbed64a7f43dccf527218380bc

Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@....at>
---
I presume we don't want to keep such obsolete information but sorry for the
noise if we do. Also, I noticed that the original rationale to remove those
options from ext4 (i.e., no other fs is offering this option) is no longer
valid as others have gained this capability.

 Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
index 5740d85439ff..2418b0c2d3df 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
@@ -212,16 +212,6 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
         that ext4's inode table readahead algorithm will pre-read into the
         buffer cache.  The default value is 32 blocks.

-  nouser_xattr
-        Disables Extended User Attributes.  See the attr(5) manual page for
-        more information about extended attributes.
-
-  noacl
-        This option disables POSIX Access Control List support. If ACL support
-        is enabled in the kernel configuration (CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL), ACL
-        is enabled by default on mount. See the acl(5) manual page for more
-        information about acl.
-
   bsddf	(*)
         Make 'df' act like BSD.

--
Kind regards, Stefan Tauner