[PATCH v3 29/29] acl: remove a slew of now unused helpers

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Thu Sep 29 08:28:22 UTC 2022


On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 10:25:55AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 06:08:43PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > Now that the posix acl api is active we can remove all the hacky helpers
> > we had to keep around for all these years and also remove the set and
> > get posix acl xattr handler methods as they aren't needed anymore.
> 
> I think we can also remove all the xattr handlers for ACLs now, can't we?

I would like to do this in a follow-up series because afaict we need to
massage how the ->list() handler is currently used to infer xattrs
support. I think adressing this in a follow-up series would be better.
There'll be more cleanups possibly anyway, I think.



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