From: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>,
"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software.
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:08:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0877502e-8369-9cfd-36e8-5a4798260cd4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021105409.32okvzbslxmcjdze@pali>
Dne 21.10.2019 v 12:54 Pali Rohár napsal(a):
> Plus there is new version of
> this out-of-tree Samsung's exfat driver called sdfat which can be found
> in some Android phones.
[...]
>
> About that one implementation from Samsung, which was recently merged
> into staging tree, more people wrote that code is in horrible state and
> probably it should not have been merged. That implementation has
> all-one-one driver FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFAT which basically
> duplicate current kernel fs/fat code.
>
> Quick look at this Konstantin's patch, it looks like that code is not in
> such bad state as staging one. It has only exFAT support (no FAT32) but
> there is no write support (yet).
But, AFAIK, Samsung is preparing a patch that will replace the current
staging driver with their newer sdfat driver that also has write support.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=156985252507812&w=2
Maurizio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 15:18 [PATCH] fs: exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Konstantin Komarov
2019-10-19 23:34 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-22 17:13 ` [PATCH] " Konstantin Komarov
2019-10-20 18:08 ` [PATCH] fs: " Richard Weinberger
2019-10-21 10:54 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-21 11:08 ` Maurizio Lombardi [this message]
2019-10-21 11:13 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-21 11:31 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-10-21 11:11 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-21 11:37 ` Maurizio Lombardi
2019-10-21 11:45 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-21 12:01 ` Maurizio Lombardi
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