On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:21:01 -0500, "Ted Ts'o" [off-list ref] wrote:

I was going through some old patches in the ext4 patchwork list, and
came across this.  It looks like this patch has never been applied to
mainline.  If it's a "clear improvement", any reason not to submit it?

The patch is needed only with richacl patches, that add an extra argument to
may_create.

-aneesh