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

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Message-ID: <20191016160349.pwghlg566hh2o7id@pali>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:03:49 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        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 Wednesday 16 October 2019 10:31:13 Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Friday 30 August 2019 09:56:47 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 August 2019 19:35:06 Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > With regards to missing specs/docs/whatever - our main concern with this
> > > > release was that we want full interoperability, which is why the spec
> > > > was made public as-is without modifications from what was used
> > > > internally. There's no "secret sauce" that Microsoft is hiding here.
> > > 
> > > Ok, if it was just drop of "current version" of documentation then it
> > > makes sense.
> > > 
> > > > How about we give this spec/code time to get soaked and reviewed for a
> > > > bit, and if folks still feel (in a month or so?) that there are missing
> > > > bits of information related to exfat, I'll be happy to go back and try
> > > > to get them out as well.
> > 
> > Hello Sasha!
> > 
> > Now one month passed, so do you have some information when missing parts
> > of documentation like TexFAT would be released to public?
> 
> Sure, I'll see if I can get an approval to open it up.

Ok!

> Can I assume you will be implementing TexFAT support once the spec is
> available?

I cannot promise that I would implement something which I do not know
how is working... It depends on how complicated TexFAT is and also how
future exfat support in kernel would look like.

But I'm interesting in implementing it.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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