linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat

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Date:   Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:00:17 -0400
From:   "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat

On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:25:24 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:

> I dug up my old discussion with the current vfat maintainer and he said
> something to the affect of, "leave the existing code alone, make a new
> filesystem, I don't want anything to do with exfat".
>
> And I don't blame them, vfat is fine as-is and stable and shouldn't be
> touched for new things.
>
> We can keep non-vfat filesystems from being mounted with the exfat
> codebase, and make things simpler for everyone involved.

Ogawa:

Is this still your position, that you want exfat to be a separate module?

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