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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	"Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Sasha Levin" <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:18:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829111837.GB23393@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190829110443.GD64893@architecture4>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 07:04:43PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:37:49AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:50:19AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I did try just that, a few years ago, and gave up on it.  I don't think
> > > it can be added to the existing vfat code base but I am willing to be
> > > proven wrong.
> > 
> > And what exactly was the problem?
> > 
> > > 
> > > Now that we have the specs, it might be easier, and the vfat spec is a
> > > subset of the exfat spec, but to get stuff working today, for users,
> > > it's good to have it in staging.  We can do the normal, "keep it in
> > > stable, get a clean-room implementation merged like usual, and then
> > > delete the staging version" three step process like we have done a
> > > number of times already as well.
> > > 
> > > I know the code is horrible, but I will gladly take horrible code into
> > > staging.  If it bothers you, just please ignore it.  That's what staging
> > > is there for :)
> > 
> > And then after a while you decide it's been long enough and force move
> > it out of staging like the POS erofs code?
> 
> The problem is that EROFS has been there for a year and
> I sent v1-v8 patches here, You didn't review or reply it
> once until now.
> 
> And I have no idea what is the relationship between EROFS
> and the current exfat implementation.

There isn't any, other than it too is a filesystem that was in the
staging directory :)

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-29 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-28 16:08 [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-28 17:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29  6:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29  6:39     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29  9:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29  9:50         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 10:37           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:04             ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 11:18               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-08-29 11:18             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 15:11               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:27                 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:43                   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:51                     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:04                       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30  8:34                         ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30  8:43                           ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 11:26                             ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30 12:04                               ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:44                     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:59                       ` Joe Perches
2019-08-29 17:02                         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30  2:06                     ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30  6:38                       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 12:00                         ` Checking usage of likeliness annotations Markus Elfring
2019-08-30 11:51                       ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging David Sterba
2019-08-31  3:50                         ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30 15:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 21:54               ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-31 10:31                 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-01  0:04                   ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-29  7:01     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29  8:24       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29  9:51         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 12:14 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 12:34   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 12:46     ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 14:08 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 15:44 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 20:56 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 23:18   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 23:35     ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-30  7:56       ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:03         ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:31           ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:03             ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:20               ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:22               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 16:32                 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:50                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 20:33               ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 21:53                 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-17  7:53                   ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-17  7:50                 ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13  0:06                   ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13 21:18                     ` Sasha Levin
2020-02-14 22:16                       ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-02-14 22:43                         ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-14 23:25                           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-04-21 21:30                       ` exfat upcase table for code points above U+FFFF (Was: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging) Pali Rohár
2020-04-27 15:49                         ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-28  7:46                           ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:05             ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-30  8:03     ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-30 15:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 15:43     ` Pali Rohár
2019-09-14 13:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to Park Ju Hyung
2019-09-15 13:54   ` Greg KH
2019-09-15 16:11     ` Ju Hyung Park
     [not found] ` <20190918195920.25210-1-qkrwngud825@gmail.com>
2019-09-18 20:12   ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: rebase to sdFAT v2.2.0 Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:13   ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:22     ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:26       ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:31         ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:46           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-18 21:31   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 21:31   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 22:17     ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-10-24  9:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Pali Rohár

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