[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] dm verity: add support for error correction

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Nov 09 2015 at  2:19P -0500,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 11:37:35AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > I'm left wondering: can the new error correction code be made an
> > optional feature that is off by default? -- so as to preserve some
> > isolation of this new code from the old dm-verity behaviour.
> 
> It's optional in the sense that you must specify error correction
> parameters in the table to turn it on. Otherwise, verity_dec_decode
> returns -1 and dm-verity handles errors as before.
> 
> > might be good to add a wrapper like verity_fec_is_enabled().
> 
> Sure. I can do this in v2 and address the other feedback and build
> issues as well.

Hi Sami,

Any progress on v2 that takes into account previous review feedback?

Note I've staged the first 2 patches in this series for Linux 4.5
inclusion, see:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=dm-4.5

Mike