Re: [PATCH v12 0/4] Prepare for upcoming Casefolding/Encryption patches

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Mon Aug 24 2020 - 19:00:21 EST


On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:45:08AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:09:51AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ping?
>

Unfortunately this patchset got ignored for 5.9.

Ted, will you have any interest in taking this patchset for 5.10? Or should
Jaegeuk just take patches 1-3 via the f2fs tree?

The fscrypt tree is also an option, but I feel it's not really appropriate since
this patchset is just a refactoring of the existing casefolding support.

More reviews on patches 1-2 would be appreciated too. So far just Gabriel and I
have reviewed them. I was hoping that other people would review them too.

- Eric