On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 07:04:43PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:37:49AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:50:19AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > I did try just that, a few years ago, and gave up on it. I don't think > > > it can be added to the existing vfat code base but I am willing to be > > > proven wrong. > > > > And what exactly was the problem? > > > > > > > > Now that we have the specs, it might be easier, and the vfat spec is a > > > subset of the exfat spec, but to get stuff working today, for users, > > > it's good to have it in staging. We can do the normal, "keep it in > > > stable, get a clean-room implementation merged like usual, and then > > > delete the staging version" three step process like we have done a > > > number of times already as well. > > > > > > I know the code is horrible, but I will gladly take horrible code into > > > staging. If it bothers you, just please ignore it. That's what staging > > > is there for :) > > > > And then after a while you decide it's been long enough and force move > > it out of staging like the POS erofs code? > > The problem is that EROFS has been there for a year and > I sent v1-v8 patches here, You didn't review or reply it > once until now. > > And I have no idea what is the relationship between EROFS > and the current exfat implementation. There isn't any, other than it too is a filesystem that was in the staging directory :) greg k-h
