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Re: [PATCH v7 3/7] fs/posix_acl: Document that get_acl respects AC ...

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Eric W. You make your bias very clear, by simply trying to hide the other case. You make your bias very clear, by simply trying to hide the other case. That other case exists. You can't - and shouldn't - try to just hide it. You can't - and shouldn't - try to just hide it. Besides, that "forget_cached_acl()" approach actually has a valid use case. Maybe you _do_ want to cache ACL's, but with a timeout or revalidation.
revalidation.
ACL_DONT_CACHE really is a big hammer that makes caching not work at all.

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