Re: Merging backported fscrypt to 4.4?

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:26:26PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > Anyway, that's a side note, I don't really understand why you need/want
> > fscrypt, if the only in-kernel filesystems that need it, already have
> > this support?
> 
> Ah, sorry for not explaining better - we have our own flash friendly
> file system (TFFS), which is not in the tree so we have a vested
> interest in fscrypto being part of the mainline kernel rather than
> maintaining it separately.

Ok, that makes more sense.  No, sorry, I'm not going to make changes to
any kernel for an out-of-tree chunk of code.  We wouldn't do that in
Linus's latest tree, so of course we wouldn't do it in a stable kernel
tree.

Get your filesystem merged and then we can talk :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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