diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/Kconfig b/fs/ocfs2/Kconfig
index 701b7a3..0d84066 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/Kconfig
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 	select CRC32
 	select QUOTA
 	select QUOTA_TREE
+	select FS_POSIX_ACL
 	help
 	  OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
 	  system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
@@ -74,12 +75,3 @@
 	  This option will enable expensive consistency checks. Enable
 	  this option for debugging only as it is likely to decrease
 	  performance of the filesystem.
-
-config OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
-	bool "OCFS2 POSIX Access Control Lists"
-	depends on OCFS2_FS
-	select FS_POSIX_ACL
-	default n
-	help
-	  Posix Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
-	  groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/Makefile b/fs/ocfs2/Makefile
index 31f25ce..600d2d2 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/Makefile
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/Makefile
@@ -39,11 +39,8 @@
 	ver.o			\
 	quota_local.o		\
 	quota_global.o		\
-	xattr.o
-
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL),y)
-ocfs2-objs += acl.o
-endif
+	xattr.o			\
+	acl.o
 
 ocfs2_stackglue-objs := stackglue.o
 ocfs2_stack_o2cb-objs := stack_o2cb.o
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/acl.h b/fs/ocfs2/acl.h
index 8f6389e..5c5d31f 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/acl.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/acl.h
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 	__le32 e_id;
 };
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
-
 extern int ocfs2_check_acl(struct inode *, int);
 extern int ocfs2_acl_chmod(struct inode *);
 extern int ocfs2_init_acl(handle_t *, struct inode *, struct inode *,
@@ -35,24 +33,4 @@
 			  struct ocfs2_alloc_context *,
 			  struct ocfs2_alloc_context *);
 
-#else /* CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL*/
-
-#define ocfs2_check_acl NULL
-static inline int ocfs2_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-static inline int ocfs2_init_acl(handle_t *handle,
-				 struct inode *inode,
-				 struct inode *dir,
-				 struct buffer_head *di_bh,
-				 struct buffer_head *dir_bh,
-				 struct ocfs2_alloc_context *meta_ac,
-				 struct ocfs2_alloc_context *data_ac)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL*/
-
 #endif /* OCFS2_ACL_H */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index 9606730..da7d33a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -1413,19 +1413,12 @@
 			}
 			mopt->mount_opt |= OCFS2_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA;
 			break;
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 		case Opt_acl:
 			mopt->mount_opt |= OCFS2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL;
 			break;
 		case Opt_noacl:
 			mopt->mount_opt &= ~OCFS2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL;
 			break;
-#else
-		case Opt_acl:
-		case Opt_noacl:
-			printk(KERN_INFO "ocfs2 (no)acl options not supported\n");
-			break;
-#endif
 		default:
 			mlog(ML_ERROR,
 			     "Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" "
@@ -1502,12 +1495,10 @@
 	if (opts & OCFS2_MOUNT_INODE64)
 		seq_printf(s, ",inode64");
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	if (opts & OCFS2_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL)
 		seq_printf(s, ",acl");
 	else
 		seq_printf(s, ",noacl");
-#endif
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index fe34190..923e950e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -98,10 +98,8 @@
 
 struct xattr_handler *ocfs2_xattr_handlers[] = {
 	&ocfs2_xattr_user_handler,
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	&ocfs2_xattr_acl_access_handler,
 	&ocfs2_xattr_acl_default_handler,
-#endif
 	&ocfs2_xattr_trusted_handler,
 	&ocfs2_xattr_security_handler,
 	NULL
@@ -109,12 +107,10 @@
 
 static struct xattr_handler *ocfs2_xattr_handler_map[OCFS2_XATTR_MAX] = {
 	[OCFS2_XATTR_INDEX_USER]	= &ocfs2_xattr_user_handler,
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	[OCFS2_XATTR_INDEX_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS]
 					= &ocfs2_xattr_acl_access_handler,
 	[OCFS2_XATTR_INDEX_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT]
 					= &ocfs2_xattr_acl_default_handler,
-#endif
 	[OCFS2_XATTR_INDEX_TRUSTED]	= &ocfs2_xattr_trusted_handler,
 	[OCFS2_XATTR_INDEX_SECURITY]	= &ocfs2_xattr_security_handler,
 };
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
index 08e3638..abd72a4 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@
 extern struct xattr_handler ocfs2_xattr_user_handler;
 extern struct xattr_handler ocfs2_xattr_trusted_handler;
 extern struct xattr_handler ocfs2_xattr_security_handler;
-#ifdef CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 extern struct xattr_handler ocfs2_xattr_acl_access_handler;
 extern struct xattr_handler ocfs2_xattr_acl_default_handler;
-#endif
 extern struct xattr_handler *ocfs2_xattr_handlers[];
 
 ssize_t ocfs2_listxattr(struct dentry *, char *, size_t);