From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
hughd@google.com, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TMPFS: Expand "help" to explain value of TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:28:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110618192847.62dc6d87@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1106180743040.17576@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Jun 18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> + If you've selected TMPFS, you almost certainly want this option
> + as well since a number of user space features (ie., ALSA sound)
> + require POSIX ACL support under /dev to work properly. In other
There are still many systems which do not use ACLs in /dev or anywhere
else at all. Hence, "may require POSIX ACL support".
> + words, if you're not sure and you have no *compelling* reason to
> + deselect this feature, say Y.
The asterisks around compelling are unnecessary.
BTW, thanks for improving the Kconfig help texts.
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Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-18 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 11:45 Robert P. J. Day
2011-06-18 14:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-18 15:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-06-18 15:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-18 17:28 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2011-06-18 17:32 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-06-18 17:37 ` Randy Dunlap
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