Re: [PATCH 1/3] eCryptfs: eCryptfs kernel module

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:47:40PM -0600, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> 
> While eCryptfs is functional, there is a significant amount of work
> yet to be done; a perusal of the source will reveal that there is a
> lot of low-hanging fruit/trivial fixes (David Howells: we promise that
> using your keyring correctly is near the top of the list, right after
> we get these memory leaks resolved).  It derives from cryptfs, which
> is a cryptographic filesystem instantiated by Erez Zadok's stackable
> filesystem framework, FiST.  We are aware that there are some extant
> bugs in the version of cryptfs that we built off of; as those are made
> known, we will be applying fixes.  In the meantime, we would like the
> eCryptfs kernel module to be merged into the mainline kernel.

Why not fix up the stuff that you know needs to be fixed?  It should not
be merged until then at the least.

Good luck,

greg k-h
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