From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F2FC3A59E for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 19:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB4F21897 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 19:06:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1567451184; bh=zvRcbQCOY51GKOL5qbyTT97X2kqYQ4CVAIpuSfcp7o8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=lRuqqTeDm6c84dX8kXSBXTHqpRNrmXFTNvIUO3Dwk/hiG9394M1nnRH0rbOWdlL8v q2Qv3h2oH/4NIwsKhvOo5u84nApySiYLrD82ELgci1sFxMLvPDk4BJa1TeuEFiY0RB OktezRuTfbDXjj88ucy7bSTOF/Fw0aGcNMImoS/E= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727058AbfIBTGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Sep 2019 15:06:22 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37506 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726974AbfIBTGW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Sep 2019 15:06:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2209321883; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 19:06:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1567451181; bh=zvRcbQCOY51GKOL5qbyTT97X2kqYQ4CVAIpuSfcp7o8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=lmWXZApgoxbrSptmsO4LuoMFe+B2CSSNeTx4sy7Itg3caSDGj/n0qJmj2OuZgeYeM tHBHUB715zWlMS3R4s7H2lYdA9cs+/r5/fETLy4BJYDYvy6sbogNHT9q5px030ZniO FI/zmQ1ubYy+8XSX7RBjcc0jg0aP9Ta4QGLrrHVc= Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 21:06:19 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Valdis =?utf-8?Q?Kl=C4=93tnieks?= Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , Christoph Hellwig , Sasha Levin , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat Message-ID: <20190902190619.GA25019@kroah.com> References: <245727.1567183359@turing-police> <20190830164503.GA12978@infradead.org> <267691.1567212516@turing-police> <20190831064616.GA13286@infradead.org> <295233.1567247121@turing-police> <20190902073525.GA18988@infradead.org> <20190902152524.GA4964@kroah.com> <501797.1567450817@turing-police> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <501797.1567450817@turing-police> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:00:17PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > 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? Personally I agree that this should be separate at least for quite some time to shake things out at the very least. But I'll defer to Ogawa if he thinks things should be merged. thanks, greg k-h