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

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Message-ID: <20191016140353.4hrncxa5wkx47oau@pali>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:03:53 +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 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?

> Basically external references in that released exFAT specification are
> unknown / not released yet. Like TexFAT. So if you have an input in MS
> could you forward request about these missing bits?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com