On Wednesday 28 August 2019 18:08:17 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> > > The exfat code needs a lot of work to get it into "real" shape for > the fs/ part of the kernel, so put it into drivers/staging/ for now so > that it can be worked on by everyone in the community. > > The full specification of the filesystem can be found at: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification > > Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Greg! I'm not really sure if this exfat implementation is fully suitable for mainline linux kernel. In my opinion, proper way should be to implement exFAT support into existing fs/fat/ code instead of replacing whole vfat/msdosfs by this new (now staging) fat implementation. In linux kernel we really do not need two different implementation of VFAT32. So I'm a bit sceptical about usefulness of this exfat code/driver, if it makes any sense to have it even in staging. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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