linux-kernel - Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 18:30:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
cc:	hch@...radead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()

Hi,

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> And so I strongly suggest this patch as well.  Apparently this feature
> is not even used by anybody, otherwise somebody would have noticed
> when Trond's fix broke execute permission checking on regular files...

And I'm very strongly against this.
If you wanted to rip out the resource inode logic, it would be more than 
this.
At worst this code does nothing right now, so why this sudden rush to 
remove this without even an attempt of fixing it?

bye, Roman
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