[PATCH v2] fscrypt: Factor out bio specific functions

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Sat Jan 7 11:24:06 PST 2017


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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