Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] fscrypt: improve documentation for inline encryption

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently the fscrypt inline encryption support is documented in the
> "Implementation details" section, and it doesn't go into much detail.
> It's really more than just an "implementation detail" though, as there
> is a user-facing mount option.  Also, hardware-wrapped key support (an
> upcoming feature) will depend on inline encryption and will affect the
> on-disk format; by definition that's not just an implementation detail.
> 
> Therefore, move this documentation into its own section and expand it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst |  2 +
>  Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst     | 73 +++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

I've applied this patch to fscrypt.git#master for 5.16, as it's a useful cleanup
which isn't dependent on the hardware-wrapped keys feature.

- Eric



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