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

[Daniel Rosenberg]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 5:46 PM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Would libfs be better?  or a casefolding library in fs/casefold.c?
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> --
> 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?