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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-08-05 10:32:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-08-05 10:33:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3272cab4063467410802367a8d69f06c65b2a866 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c665f8572b0aab2a5343d32b5eaa6713669b04f /fs/Kconfig | |
| parent | f629299b544b6cc12b4e3e85fec96f4ce5809482 (diff) | |
| parent | 140d0b2108faebc77c6523296e211e509cb9f5f9 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: Include most of the merge window trees, to do fixes on top.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -127,14 +127,21 @@ 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, it's possible that you'll also need + this option as there are a number of Linux distros that require + POSIX ACL support under /dev for certain features to work properly. + For example, some distros need this feature for ALSA-related /dev + files for sound to work properly. In short, if you're not sure, + 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 |
