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=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS 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 8744FC33CAC for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511E82080D for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:46:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1580726771; bh=/paHcOi+xB86rjIjYyLdXCYTLMIaivBy8llnLyFh7pU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=L5IdKBR/ADud1W115/kYT+EUeZ8NZ97PUgwGrvzb83HzdySlUn8hkaqqJo6ma2w5P URxN0fJE7YHQN4PyjEuXhcOglSaxU1hsz7/YaLwCBtswln+1su2yUf4/Vm/Yqzirxa 3X5+cMVqr2sOBk4+6Ja22v/c1wtHvbSJPiSphgmM= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727256AbgBCKqK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2020 05:46:10 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:48754 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726100AbgBCKqK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2020 05:46:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [104.132.45.99]) (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 D81DC20661; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:46:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1580726769; bh=/paHcOi+xB86rjIjYyLdXCYTLMIaivBy8llnLyFh7pU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=P/T7npADd7+0nzPxCVf9hGGeVcTdpJBqO5uAxFzyN+utq6YrZCUAzwkhQMpNn9yNf JoEMFQthG5Jp/5FPIEPkiIDIeh8uDXT1SUYfqp3ZiJ2Q0B8M6247UtJ//J42Un4ot8 dYtB7NuiAcXLTc9v3CxxskDU3lZ2VnpKE5h7fT2Q= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:46:07 +0000 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Tetsuhiro Kohada , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Valdis Kletnieks , 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. Message-ID: <20200203104607.GA3130629@kroah.com> References: <20200203163118.31332-1-Kohada.Tetsuhiro@dc.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp> <20200203080532.GF8731@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200203081559.GA3038628@kroah.com> <20200203082938.GG8731@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com> <5f67af4339e0b9b56b43fb78ebab73e05009e307.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5f67af4339e0b9b56b43fb78ebab73e05009e307.camel@perches.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 02:40:43AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 09:46 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 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 :) > > That's more an argument to remove exfat from staging > sooner than later. I will remove it when the other patchset is merged, let's not remove code that is being used, that's not how we do things, you all know this... greg k-h