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Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions

From Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions
Date 2017-01-07 20:30 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:10:43PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> I thought you're supposed to be able to build the kernel no matter how it's
> configured.  If this patch is really too large for 4.10 then perhaps we should
> make FS_ENCRYPTION select CONFIG_BLOCK instead?

We already have FS_ENCRYPTIOn depending on BLOCK, so this is *not*
fixing a build break.

Given that, it's a bit harder to claim this is a must-have bug fix for
the stable branch?

						- Ted

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Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 21:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-05 00:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-01-07 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-01-07 23:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-09 14:40 +0100

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