Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932470AbWEMQVM (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:21:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932478AbWEMQVM (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:21:12 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.198]:46087 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932470AbWEMQVL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:21:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pvNV1b2ynGRdOM06Kzpb1hDyYuICGpN5aNhoJUz8p5UyMUNC18bTpp7/xz3X0TNdU5JPTehyPjZfkGiJoWl8UKxyyL52cPTIwSDzykmkt7iI+ZuPKfIf81rS3NU9hj2HLxZeAD2w+7AG+lLhvbxwNcGBjboV7amWUVskL1NJcgQ= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 11:21:10 -0500 From: "Michael Thompson" To: "Nick Piggin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13: eCryptfs] eCryptfs Patch Set Cc: "Phillip Hellewell" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, mike@halcrow.us, mhalcrow@us.ibm.com, mcthomps@us.ibm.com, toml@us.ibm.com, yoder1@us.ibm.com, "James Morris" , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Erez Zadok" , "David Howells" In-Reply-To: <44655ECD.10404@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060513033742.GA18598@hellewell.homeip.net> <44655ECD.10404@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 38 On 5/12/06, Nick Piggin wrote: > Phillip Hellewell wrote: > > This patch set constitutes the 0.1.7 release of the eCryptfs > > cryptographic filesystem: > > > > http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/ > > > > It includes numerous updates based on comments on the 0.1.6 submission > > made on May 4th. The only functional change worth noting is the > > removal of the unnecessary second read in ecryptfs_get1page() and > > ecryptfs_do_readpage(). > > > > This patch set was produced and tested against the 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 > > release of the kernel. > > BTW. I'm not sure if linux-fsdevel has different conventions; however > usually you don't break up a patch according to files, but logical > components or transformations from one "sane" kernel tree to the next. > And that means things keep compiling and working. The files themselves are broken down into logical components, so the per-file patch approach seems reasonable to me. > Sometimes big patches are justified. This patch format (a whole repost) was requested. Thanks, Mike -- Michael C. Thompson Software-Engineer, IBM LTC Security - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/