On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:47:32AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > Next steps for future: > > * De-duplicate cache code between fat and exfat. Currently fs/exfat > cache code is heavily copy-paste of fs/fat cache code. As said before I don't think this should be a merge blocker. I actually see this more of an experiment as the sharing might make things worse. But at least it is worth giving it a try. > * De-duplicate UTF-16 functions. Currently fs/exfat has e.g. helper > functions for surrogate pairs copy-paste from fs/nls. If you looked into that can you post a list of suspected duplicates? > > * Unify EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET and FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET. Or maybe > unify it with other filesystems too. For the initial merge I think they should be kept separate, as referencing other file systems Kconfig variable is confusing. Investingating if we could a single common one sounds like a good idea, though. > * After applying this patch series, remote staging exfat implementation. I think Greg wants to do that separately. I still hope we can do that in the same merge window, though.
