Re: [PATCH v5 13/14] ntfs: add Kconfig and Makefile
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 04:30:30 EST
> +config NTFS_FS_POSIX_ACL
> + bool "NTFS POSIX Access Control Lists"
> + depends on NTFS_FS
> + select FS_POSIX_ACL
> + help
> + 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 ntfs
> + filesystems.
> + NOTE: this is linux only feature. Windows will ignore these ACLs.
> +
> + If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N.
This looks like a new feature over the old driver. What is the
use case for it?
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +# Makefile for the ntfs filesystem support.
> +#
I'd drop this, it's pretty obvious :)