On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:25:13PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote: > > > [..] > > > Put it in drivers/staging/sdfat/. > > > > > > But really we want someone from Samsung to say that they will treat > > > the staging version as upstream. It doesn't work when people apply > > > fixes to their version and a year later back port the fixes into > > > staging. The staging tree is going to have tons and tons of white space > > > fixes so backports are a pain. All development needs to be upstream > > > first where the staging driver is upstream. Otherwise we should just > > > wait for Samsung to get it read to be merged in fs/ and not through the > > > staging tree. > > Quite frankly, > > This whole thing came as a huge-huge surprise to us, we did not initiate > > upstreaming of exfat/sdfat code and, as of this moment, I'm not exactly > > sure that we are prepared for any immediate radical changes to our internal > > development process which people all of a sudden want from us. I need to > > discuss with related people on internal thread. > > please wait a while:) > We decide to contribute sdfat directly and treat upstream exfat. > Perhaps more time is needed for patch preparation(exfat rename + vfat removal > + clean-up) and internal processes. After contributing sdfat v2.2.0 as the base, > We will also provide change-set of sdfat v2.3.0 later. That's wonderful to hear! If you need help getting patches into mergable shape, just let us know. thanks, greg k-h
