linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:52:12 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jaegeuk@...nel.org, hch@...radead.org, arnd@...db.de,
        dedekind1@...il.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        ebiggers@...gle.com, rdunlap@...radead.org, david@...ma-star.at
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions

Am 04.01.2017 um 21:10 schrieb Eric Biggers:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 09:28:36AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:49:26AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Ted,
>>>
>>> Am 01.01.2017 um 22:47 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:25:32PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>> That way we can get rid of the direct dependency on CONFIG_BLOCK.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>>>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>>>> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
>>>>> Fixes: d475a507457b ("ubifs: Add skeleton for fscrypto")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
>>>>
>>>> Applied, thanks.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure, this fixes a build error and should
>>> go into Linus' tree ASAP.
>>
>> I didn't consider this a build error since it could be fixed via a
>> config change.  And it is a pretty big patch, even if it is mostly
>> moving (not that git recognized it as such)...
>>
> 
> I thought you're supposed to be able to build the kernel no matter how it's
> configured.  If this patch is really too large for 4.10 then perhaps we should
> make FS_ENCRYPTION select CONFIG_BLOCK instead?

My initial plan was a config fix but hch asked to fix the root cause right now.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/16/118

Thanks,
//richard
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