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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Tetsuhiro Kohada <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@dc.mitsubishielectric.co.jp>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	Mori.Takahiro@ab.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	motai.hirotaka@aj.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:46:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200203082938.GG8731@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 12:29:38AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 08:15:59AM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:31:17AM +0900, Tetsuhiro Kohada wrote:
> > > > remove 'dos_name','ShortName' and related definitions.
> > > > 
> > > > 'dos_name' and 'ShortName' are definitions before VFAT.
> > > > These are never used in exFAT.
> > > 
> > > Why are we still seeing patches for the exfat in staging?
> > 
> > Because people like doing cleanup patches :)
> 
> Sure, but I think people also like to believe that their cleanup patches
> are making a difference.  In this case, they're just churning code that's
> only weeks away from deletion.
> 
> > > Why are people not working on the Samsung code base?
> > 
> > They are, see the patches on the list, hopefully they get merged after
> > -rc1 is out.
> 
> I meant the cleanup people.  Obviously _some_ people are working on the
> Samsung codebase.

We can't tell people to work on :)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-03  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-03 16:31 [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-02-03  8:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-03  8:15   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03  8:29     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-03  9:46       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-02-03 10:40         ` Joe Perches
2020-02-03 10:46           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03 16:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: exfat: dedicate count_entries() to sub-dir counting Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-02-07  9:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs Greg Kroah-Hartman

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