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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:34:18 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel@...labora.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] unicode: pass a UNICODE_AGE() tripple to utf8_load 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 unÑ–code 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).
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