On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:49:42AM -0600, Seamus de Mora wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 4:43 PM Seamus de Mora <seamusdemora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:59 PM Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 2023-11-21 15:55 GMT+09:00, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 04:55:18PM -0600, Seamus de Mora wrote: > > > >> I'd like to volunteer to add some information to the mount manual. > > > >> > > > >> I'm told that exFAT was added to the kernel about 4 years ago, but > > > >> last I checked, there was nothing about it in man mount. I feel this > > > >> could be addressed best by adding a sub-topic on exFAT under the topic > > > >> `FILESYSTEM-SPECIFIC MOUNT OPTIONS`. > > > >> > > > >> If my application is of interest, please let me know what steps I need > > > >> to take - or how to approach this task. > > > >> > > > > > > > > I'm adding from Alejandro's reply. > > > > > > > > You can start reading the source in fs/exfat in linux.git tree [1]. > > > > Then you can write the documentation for exfat in Documentation/exfat.rst > > > > (currently doesn't exist yet), at the same time of your manpage > > > > contribution. > > > > > > > > Cc'ing exfat maintainers for better treatment. > > > Thanks Bagas for forwarding this to us! > > > > > > Hi Seamus, > > > > > > Some of mount options are same with fatfs's ones. You can refer the > > > descriptions of fatfs > > > documentation(Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst). > > > If you have any questions about other options or documentation for > > > exfat, please give an email me. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > [1]: > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/exfat > > > > Thanks for the offer Namjae; I'm sure I'll take you up on that when I > > get ready to actually produce something. For now, I am reading and > > trying to get myself up to speed to tackle this. So far, the going has > > been a bit slow as I have a couple of commitments I need to finish. > > I've read a bit about the mechanics & markup for creating/editing man > pages. Now all I need is something useful to say :) > > In that regard, I **guess** the best place to look for the details I > need is in the source code. Without access to the author or > maintainers, I don't see how else to get at the details needed for a > decent piece of documentation. I think that is what Bagas (?) > suggested, but how/where do I find "fs/exfat in linux.git tree" ?? That's simple. First, you need to clone Linus's tree: ``` $ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git linux-kernel $ cd linux-kernel/ ``` You can now browse exfat sources in fs/exfat. To get maintainers list that you should Cc: when submitting patches, do from cloned repo: ``` $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl fs/exfat/ ``` Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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