On Friday 30 August 2019 08:40:06 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > 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. > > Not only not useful, but having another one is actively harmful, as > people might actually accidentally used it for classic fat. > > But what I'm really annoyed at is this whole culture of just dumping > some crap into staging and hoping it'll sort itself out. Which it > won't. We'll need a dedidcated developer spending some time on it > and just get it into shape, and having it in staging does not help > with that at all - it will get various random cleanup that could > be trivially scripted, but that is rarely the main issue with any > codebase. Exactly. Somebody should take this code and work on it. Otherwise we can say it is dead code and would happen same thing as with other staging drivers -- ready to be removed. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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