Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] Clean up the case-insensitive lookup path

Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-12-08T14:39:55Z

On 10/14/22 4:45 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> writes:
>
>> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:41:42PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm resubmitting this as v9 since I think it has fallen through the
>>>> cracks :). It is a collection of trivial fixes for casefold support on
>>>> ext4/f2fs. More details below.
>>>>
>>>> It has been sitting on the list for a while and most of it is r-b
>>>> already. I'm keeping the tags for this submission, since there is no
>>>> modifications from previous submissions, apart from a minor conflict
>>>> resolution when merging to linus/master.
>>>
>>> Who are you expecting to apply this?
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> There are three groups of changes here: libfs, ext4 and f2fs. Since the
>> changes in libfs are self-contained and only affect these two
>> filesystems, I think it should be fine for them to go through a fs tree.
>>
>> The bulk of changes are ext4, and Ted mentioned on an earlier version
>> that he could pick the first patches of this series, so I'm thinking it
>> should all go through the ext4 tree. If Jaegeuk acks, the f2fs changes
>> are safe to go with the rest, or I can send them afterwards as a
>> separate series once the libfs code is merged.
>
> Ted,
>
> Does the above plan work for you? Do you intend to pick this up for the
> next merge window?
It seems like this series hasn't been picked up. Any ideas on what can be done?

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BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum