On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:44:28AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 5/21/20 9:05 AM, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > As Ubuntu and Fedora release new version used kernel version equal to or
> > higher than v5.4, They started to support kernel exfat filesystem.
> >
> > Linus Torvalds reported mount error with new version of exfat on Fedora.
> >
> > exfat: Unknown parameter 'namecase'
> >
> > This is because there is a difference in mount option between old
> > staging/exfat and new exfat.
> > And utf8, debug, and codepage options as well as namecase have been
> > removed from new exfat.
> >
> > This patch add the dummy mount options as deprecated option to be backward
> > compatible with old one.
>
> Wow, it seems wild that we'd need to maintain compatibility with options
> which only ever existed in a different codebase in a staging driver
> (what's the point of staging if every interface that makes it that far has
> to be maintained in perpetuity?)
>
> Often, when things are deprecated, they are eventually removed. Perhaps a
> future removal date stated in this commit, or in Documentation/..../exfat.txt
> would be good as a reminder to eventually remove this?
For NFS, 'intr' has been deprecated since December 2007 and has been
printing a warning since June 2008. How long until we delete it?
> > static const struct constant_table exfat_param_enums[] = {
> > @@ -223,6 +229,10 @@ static const struct fs_parameter_spec exfat_parameters[] = {
> > fsparam_enum("errors", Opt_errors, exfat_param_enums),
> > fsparam_flag("discard", Opt_discard),
> > fsparam_s32("time_offset", Opt_time_offset),
> > + fsparam_flag("utf8", Opt_utf8),
> > + fsparam_flag("debug", Opt_debug),
> > + fsparam_u32("namecase", Opt_namecase),
> > + fsparam_u32("codepage", Opt_codepage),
__fsparam(NULL, "utf8", Opt_utf8, fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
__fsparam(NULL, "debug", Opt_debug, fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
__fsparam(fs_param_is_u32, "namecase", Opt_namecase,
fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
__fsparam(fs_param_is_u32, "codepage", Opt_codepage,
fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
> > @@ -278,6 +288,18 @@ static int exfat_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > opts->time_offset = result.int_32;
> > break;
> > + case Opt_utf8:
> > + pr_warn("exFAT-fs: 'utf8' mount option is deprecated and has no effect\n");
> > + break;
> > + case Opt_debug:
> > + pr_warn("exFAT-fs: 'debug' mount option is deprecated and has no effect\n");
> > + break;
> > + case Opt_namecase:
> > + pr_warn("exFAT-fs: 'namecase' mount option is deprecated and has no effect\n");
> > + break;
> > + case Opt_codepage:
> > + pr_warn("exFAT-fs: 'codepage' mount option is deprecated and has no effect\n");
> > + break;
and then you don't need this hunk because the fs parser will print the
deprecated message for you.
