Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] dedupe smb unicode files

[Steve French]

The related question is which tree to send it from, if no problems
reported (presumably mine since it mostly affect cifs.ko and ksmbd.ko,
and because there hasn't been activity in fs/nls for years)

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:56 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No objections to this on my part.  If Shaggy is ok with the JFS
> change, we could target it for 6.6-rc1 if it tests out ok
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:28 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * linux@xxxxxxxxxxx (linux@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The smb client and server code have (mostly) duplicated code
> > > for unicode manipulation, in particular upper case handling.
> > >
> > > Flatten this lot into shared code.
> >
> > Gentle two week ping on this please.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > (Apologies to the 3 of you who already got a copy of this ping,
> > recent due to a missing header ',' )
> >
> > > There's some code that's slightly different between the two, and
> > > I've not attempted to share that - this should be strictly a no
> > > behaviour change set.
> > >
> > > In addition, the same tables and code are shared in jfs, however
> > > there's very little testing available for the unicode in there,
> > > so just share the raw data tables.
> > >
> > > I suspect there's more UCS-2 code that can be shared, in the NLS code
> > > and in the UCS-2 code used by the EFI interfaces.
> > >
> > > Lightly tested with a module and a monolithic build, and just mounting
> > > itself.
> > >
> > > This dupe was found using PMD:
> > >   https://pmd.github.io/pmd/pmd_userdocs_cpd.html
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > Version 2
> > >   Moved the shared code to fs/nls after v1 feedback.
> > >   Renamed shared tables from Smb to Nls prefix
> > >   Move UniStrcat as well
> > >   Share the JFS tables
> > >
> > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert (4):
> > >   fs/smb: Remove unicode 'lower' tables
> > >   fs/smb: Swing unicode common code from smb->NLS
> > >   fs/smb/client: Use common code in client
> > >   fs/jfs: Use common ucs2 upper case table
> > >
> > >  fs/jfs/Kconfig               |   1 +
> > >  fs/jfs/Makefile              |   2 +-
> > >  fs/jfs/jfs_unicode.h         |  17 +-
> > >  fs/jfs/jfs_uniupr.c          | 121 -------------
> > >  fs/nls/Kconfig               |   8 +
> > >  fs/nls/Makefile              |   1 +
> > >  fs/nls/nls_ucs2_data.h       |  15 ++
> > >  fs/nls/nls_ucs2_utils.c      | 144 +++++++++++++++
> > >  fs/nls/nls_ucs2_utils.h      | 285 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  fs/smb/client/Kconfig        |   1 +
> > >  fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c |   1 -
> > >  fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.h | 330 +----------------------------------
> > >  fs/smb/client/cifs_uniupr.h  | 239 -------------------------
> > >  fs/smb/server/Kconfig        |   1 +
> > >  fs/smb/server/unicode.c      |   1 -
> > >  fs/smb/server/unicode.h      | 325 +---------------------------------
> > >  fs/smb/server/uniupr.h       | 268 ----------------------------
> > >  17 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 1293 deletions(-)
> > >  delete mode 100644 fs/jfs/jfs_uniupr.c
> > >  create mode 100644 fs/nls/nls_ucs2_data.h
> > >  create mode 100644 fs/nls/nls_ucs2_utils.c
> > >  create mode 100644 fs/nls/nls_ucs2_utils.h
> > >  delete mode 100644 fs/smb/client/cifs_uniupr.h
> > >  delete mode 100644 fs/smb/server/uniupr.h
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.41.0
> > >
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>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



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Thanks,

Steve