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

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Message-ID: <20190902190619.GA25019@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Sep 2019 21:06:19 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
        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, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:00:17PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> 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?

Personally I agree that this should be separate at least for quite some
time to shake things out at the very least.  But I'll defer to Ogawa if
he thinks things should be merged.

thanks,

greg k-h