From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Sasha Levin" <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:35:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829233506.GT5281@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <184209.1567120696@turing-police>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 07:18:16PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:56:31 +0200, Pali Roh?r said:
>
>> I'm not really sure if this exfat implementation is fully suitable for
>> mainline linux kernel.
>>
>> In my opinion, proper way should be to implement exFAT support into
>> existing fs/fat/ code instead of replacing whole vfat/msdosfs by this
>> new (now staging) fat implementation.
>
>> In linux kernel we really do not need two different implementation of
>> VFAT32.
>
>This patch however does have one major advantage over "patch vfat to
>support exfat" - which is that the patch exists.
>
>If somebody comes forward with an actual "extend vfat to do exfat" patch,
>we should at that point have a discussion about relative merits....
This patch going into staging doesn't necessarily mean that one day
it'll get moved to fs/exfat/. It's very possible that the approach would
instead be to use the staging code for reference, build this
functionality in fs/fat/, and kill off the staging code when it's not
needed anymore.
With regards to missing specs/docs/whatever - our main concern with this
release was that we want full interoperability, which is why the spec
was made public as-is without modifications from what was used
internally. There's no "secret sauce" that Microsoft is hiding here.
How about we give this spec/code time to get soaked and reviewed for a
bit, and if folks still feel (in a month or so?) that there are missing
bits of information related to exfat, I'll be happy to go back and try
to get them out as well.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 16:08 [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-28 17:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 6:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 6:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 9:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 9:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 10:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:04 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 11:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 11:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 15:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:27 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:43 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:51 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:04 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 8:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30 8:43 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 11:26 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30 12:04 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:44 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:59 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-29 17:02 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 2:06 ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30 6:38 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 12:00 ` Checking usage of likeliness annotations Markus Elfring
2019-08-30 12:00 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-30 11:51 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging David Sterba
2019-08-31 3:50 ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 21:54 ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-31 10:31 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-01 0:04 ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-29 7:01 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 8:24 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 9:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 12:14 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 12:34 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 12:46 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 14:08 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 14:08 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 15:44 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 15:44 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 20:56 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 23:18 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 23:35 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-08-30 7:56 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:03 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:31 ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:03 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:20 ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 16:32 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 20:33 ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 21:53 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-17 7:53 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-17 7:50 ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13 0:06 ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13 21:18 ` Sasha Levin
2020-02-14 22:16 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-02-14 22:43 ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-14 23:25 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-04-21 21:30 ` exfat upcase table for code points above U+FFFF (Was: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging) Pali Rohár
2020-04-27 15:49 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-28 7:46 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:05 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-30 8:03 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-30 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 15:43 ` Pali Rohár
2019-09-14 13:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to Park Ju Hyung
2019-09-15 13:54 ` Greg KH
2019-09-15 16:11 ` Ju Hyung Park
[not found] ` <20190918195920.25210-1-qkrwngud825@gmail.com>
2019-09-18 20:12 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: rebase to sdFAT v2.2.0 Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:13 ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:22 ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:26 ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:31 ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:46 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-18 21:31 ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 22:17 ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 21:31 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-24 9:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Pali Rohár
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