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=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_EXCESS_BASE64, 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 5CC96C3A59F for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E3A2080F for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="EKVBjDVW" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727644AbfH2MOo (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:14:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com ([209.85.221.67]:41144 "EHLO mail-wr1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726990AbfH2MOn (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:14:43 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f67.google.com with SMTP id j16so3165988wrr.8; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:14:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=g6fQr58D2A40FvH0simm71xGSDIeFGyQZqgWXUgFWVY=; b=EKVBjDVW9RSSsuGVKwJg9XdPQZP3nPqNBLIQbnweHiW1qdsbbBVQ2EwIIeCP/YjkhQ b0ZQXKZkbwR1G+h1ftlcav7i6dOdTJ+fsBgzJOv2v1rYER9jkeXwyi3vpL1W5cvK6cmA rTJPfJOxCUJpcpH2xtnKDbOpdrBqrmITUvvknvxgLadPa83a4NQIfqUWb7zkwJVFUZtP CO6qDp1zaJsRkIHN3VQVgUCnA2mwrhs2FoAsyOZ30f+ubYdw86Wwk+aAXr0auKdJhAg4 oKWP3owdsXOgRZJFoxQLRJTBcqZUKu6RDU1RsjkUF3gODKy4YBJy7c6zyaHnXWEs43Hx VARw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=g6fQr58D2A40FvH0simm71xGSDIeFGyQZqgWXUgFWVY=; b=N9opEtSUwfGZV4siC+7srgovCEiY28eV20O7V/27uHRFlp+AYD7cyf0Zh7vWbDzMZ+ edafZDKw4Ofg/oj8q+KYQ7tN2oS0F14S5bIRWyjWheuPX2RiZugR5u5zGixlfSDFCZwN hVCGaDQ9+Oxs4tw2HDDLbsjUKDQgZl1zmiHt7xcci4nRJKAYetpqLH7elsSDzB0CWPyn ndsGPhllZ9IrxkW7naOaaWBCUqCd4ixzuP477K8Fb79ZKSwnYFBnv/178pbns0/yDSU+ u2wCsEFJPnTuOhomET9AMYtFSUcXOlUrlTiN984C1c8c1TbNAefr1vQVmZOclydw9o3r D3Sw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWk/USQl7WoQnnnSt4kygKfng53wgKDfaD7aIRS3UvOM9bLiXUS 54+qRWgdbmQBl+UXUgvRGxk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqx+hSZNfO2MPixBonI1vY368TbshRm/+4s8x1yBJDMvdY3MjoTuP2w/gjxF09XVXNJXgtPXjA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:e286:: with SMTP id v6mr10673358wri.4.1567080881576; Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pali ([2a02:2b88:2:1::5cc6:2f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z25sm2843048wml.5.2019.08.29.05.14.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:14:35 +0200 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Valdis =?utf-8?Q?Kl=C4=93tnieks?= , Sasha Levin , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Message-ID: <20190829121435.bsl5cnx7yqgakpgb@pali> References: <20190828160817.6250-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20190828160817.6250-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 28 August 2019 18:08:17 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > The full specification of the filesystem can be found at: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification This is not truth. This specification is not "full". There are missing important details, like how is TexFAT implemented. In that specification is just reference to other unpublished documents. So it is classic MS way, they release something incomplete and incompatible with their own NT implementation, like with FAT32 vs fastfat.sys. I would be very very careful about existence of such documentation until somebody implement it and do some testing against MS own implementation. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com