Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 12:31:44 EST


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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