On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 06:11:39PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:07:54 -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > >> This is v6 of the negative dentry on case-insensitive directories. > >> Thanks Eric for the review of the last iteration. This version > >> drops the patch to expose the helper to check casefolding directories, > >> since it is not necessary in ecryptfs and it might be going away. It > >> also addresses some documentation details, fix a build bot error and > >> simplifies the commit messages. See the changelog in each patch for > >> more details. > >> > >> [...] > > > > Ok, let's put it into -next so it sees some testing. > > So it's too late for v6.7. Seems we forgot about this series. > > Sorry about that. > > Christian, > > We are approaching -rc2 and, until last Friday, it didn't shown up in > linux-next. So, to avoid turning a 6 month delay into 9 months, I pushed > your signed tag to linux-next myself. > > That obviously uncovered a merge conflict: in v6.6, ceph added fscrypt, > and the caller had to be updated. I fixed it and pushed again to > linux-next to get more testing. > > Now, I don't want to send it to Linus myself. This is 100% VFS/FS code, > I'm not the maintainer and it will definitely raise eyebrows. Can you > please requeue and make sure it goes through this time? I'm happy to My current understanding is that core dcache stuff is usually handled by Al. And he's got a dcache branches sitting in his tree. So this isn't me ignoring you in any way. My hands are tied and so I can't sort this out for you easily. > drop my branch from linux-next once yours shows up. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode.git/log/?h=negative-dentries > > This branch has the latest version with the ceph conflict folded in. I > did it this way because I'd consider it was never picked up and there is > no point in making the history complex by adding a fix on top of your > signed tag, since it already fails to build ceph. > > I can send it as a v7; but I prefer you just pull from the branch > above. Or you can ack and I'll send to Linus.
