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

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On 08/24, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 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?

fyi; I think I can merge 1-3, if Al has no concern on 1 & 2. 

> 
> 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



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