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

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Message-ID: <20191016162211.GA505532@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:22:11 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 06:03:49PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > 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.

What devices need TexFAT?  I thought it the old devices that used it are
long obsolete and gone.  How is this feature going to be tested/used?

thanks,

greg k-h