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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2011-08-15 12:47:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2011-08-15 12:47:19 +0200 |
| commit | 2d9f8a6e73ef2ec8ecaa24ca98e7010d6edd089f (patch) | |
| tree | 9ea035b696137b345c69532a318f55502f530558 /fs/Kconfig | |
| parent | ecf726f5414489fe749477eb77d6cb12bb93c8bc (diff) | |
| parent | eade7b281c9fc18401b989c77d5e5e660b25a3b7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'fix/hda' into topic/hda
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 19891aab9c6e..9fe0b349f4cd 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -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 |