On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:02:52AM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > I remember this fallback was specifically requested during a review or > in a discussion, but I honestly cannot remember the reason. > > One advantage I can think is if we have a filesystem that requires a > newer unicode version than the current kernel has, and strict mode flag > is set, we can fallback to the latest version and still mount the fs > read/write. Well, that seems a little pointless. If we add such a file system we can just upgrade the unіcode data files. (FYI, I did an upgrade to 1.13 to test this series, but without any file system that needs it I did not bother to submit the patch).
