linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

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Message-ID: <184209.1567120696@turing-police>
Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:18:16 -0400
From:   "Valdis KlÄ“tnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
To:     Pali RohÃ¡r <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:56:31 +0200, Pali Rohár said:

> I'm not really sure if this exfat implementation is fully suitable for
> mainline linux kernel.
>
> In my opinion, proper way should be to implement exFAT support into
> existing fs/fat/ code instead of replacing whole vfat/msdosfs by this
> new (now staging) fat implementation.

> In linux kernel we really do not need two different implementation of
> VFAT32.

This patch however does have one major advantage over "patch vfat to
support exfat" - which is that the patch exists.

If somebody comes forward with an actual "extend vfat to do exfat" patch,
we should at that point have a discussion about relative merits....

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