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

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Message-ID: <20200720170951.GE1292162@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:09:51 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/4] Prepare for upcoming Casefolding/Encryption
 patches

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