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

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:31:13 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
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 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.

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

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha