From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: hughd@google.com
Subject: [PATCH] TMPFS: Expand "help" to explain value of TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:45:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1106180743040.17576@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
Expand the fs/Kconfig "help" info to clarify why it's a bad idea to
deselect the TMPFS_POSIX_ACL config variable.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
---
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 19891aa..4217543 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -127,14 +127,20 @@ config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
select TMPFS_XATTR
select GENERIC_ACL
help
- POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
- groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
+ POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support additional access rights
+ for users and groups beyond the standard owner/group/world scheme,
+ and this option selects support for ACLs specifically for tmpfs
+ filesystems.
+
+ 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
+ words, if you're not sure and you have no *compelling* reason to
+ deselect this feature, say Y.
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
- If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
-
config TMPFS_XATTR
bool "Tmpfs extended attributes"
depends on TMPFS
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-18 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 11:45 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
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
2011-06-18 17:32 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-06-18 17:37 ` Randy Dunlap
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.02.1106180743040.17576@localhost6.localdomain6 \
--to=rpjday@crashcourse.ca \
--cc=hughd@google.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®