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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 1/5] unicode: Add standard casefolded d_ops
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 5:46 PM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@collabora.com> 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?

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