On Monday 21 October 2019 13:08:07 Maurizio Lombardi wrote: > Dne 21.10.2019 v 12:54 Pali Rohár napsal(a): > > Plus there is new version of > > this out-of-tree Samsung's exfat driver called sdfat which can be found > > in some Android phones. > > [...] > > > > > About that one implementation from Samsung, which was recently merged > > into staging tree, more people wrote that code is in horrible state and > > probably it should not have been merged. That implementation has > > all-one-one driver FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFAT which basically > > duplicate current kernel fs/fat code. > > > > Quick look at this Konstantin's patch, it looks like that code is not in > > such bad state as staging one. It has only exFAT support (no FAT32) but > > there is no write support (yet). > > But, AFAIK, Samsung is preparing a patch that will replace the current > staging driver with their newer sdfat driver that also has write support. > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=156985252507812&w=2 Maurizio, thank you for reference! I have not caught this Samsung activity yet! So we now we have +1 for count of exFAT drivers. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
