Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] unicode: Add standard casefolded d_ops

From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 23:21:43 EST


Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 5:46 PM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
> <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't think fs/unicode is the right place for these very specific
>> filesystem functions, just because they happen to use unicode. It is an
>> encoding library, it doesn't care about dentries, nor should know how to
>> handle them. It exposes a simple api to manipulate and convert utf8 strings.
>>
>> I saw change was after the desire to not have these functions polluting
>> the VFS hot path, but that has nothing to do with placing them here.
>>
>> Would libfs be better? or a casefolding library in fs/casefold.c?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
>
> The hash function needs access to utf8ncursor, but apart from that,
> libfs would make sense. utf8ncursor is the only reason I have them
> here. How do you feel about exposing utf8cursor or something similar?

Hi,

It was designed to be an internal thing, but I'm ok with exposing it.

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Gabriel Krisman Bertazi