Re: [PATCH v12 0/4] Prepare for upcoming Casefolding/Encryption patches
From: Eric Biggers
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 13:09:58 EST
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:12:33AM -0700, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> This lays the ground work for enabling casefolding and encryption at the
> same time for ext4 and f2fs. A future set of patches will enable that
> functionality.
>
> These unify the highly similar dentry_operations that ext4 and f2fs both
> use for casefolding. In addition, they improve d_hash by not requiring a
> new string allocation.
>
> Daniel Rosenberg (4):
> unicode: Add utf8_casefold_hash
> fs: Add standard casefolding support
> f2fs: Use generic casefolding support
> ext4: Use generic casefolding support
>
Ted, are you interested in taking this through the ext4 tree for 5.9?
- Eric