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

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 02:51:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yuchao0@...wei.com,
        miaoxie@...wei.com, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:24:09PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> It seems I misunderstood your idea, sorry about that... EROFS
> properly uses vfs interfaces (e.g. we also considered RCU symlink
> lookup path at the very beginning of our design as Al said [1],
> except for mount interface as Al mentioned [2] (thanks him for
> taking some time on it), it was used for our debugging use),
> and it didn't cause any extra burden to vfs or other subsystems.

It would still have been a lot less effort for everyone without
the idiotic staging detour.