From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:00:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <501797.1567450817@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902152524.GA4964@kroah.com>
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On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:25:24 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:
> I dug up my old discussion with the current vfat maintainer and he said
> something to the affect of, "leave the existing code alone, make a new
> filesystem, I don't want anything to do with exfat".
>
> And I don't blame them, vfat is fine as-is and stable and shouldn't be
> touched for new things.
>
> We can keep non-vfat filesystems from being mounted with the exfat
> codebase, and make things simpler for everyone involved.
Ogawa:
Is this still your position, that you want exfat to be a separate module?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 16:42 [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-30 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-31 0:48 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-31 6:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-31 10:25 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-31 14:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-08-31 14:51 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-01 1:07 ` Dave Chinner
2019-09-01 1:37 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01 3:05 ` Al Viro
2019-09-01 3:26 ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01 3:37 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-01 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2019-09-01 23:13 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-02 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 15:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-02 19:00 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2019-09-02 19:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-08 10:50 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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