linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software.

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Date:   Sun, 20 Oct 2019 20:08:20 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com>
Cc:     "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:33 AM Konstantin Komarov
<almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com> wrote:
>
> Recently exFAT filesystem specification has been made public by Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification).
> Having decades of expertise in commercial file systems development, we at Paragon Software GmbH are very excited by Microsoft's decision and now want to make our contribution to the Open Source Community by providing our implementation of exFAT Read-Only (yet!) fs implementation for the Linux Kernel.
> We are about to prepare the Read-Write support patch as well.
> 'fs/exfat' is implemented accordingly to standard Linux fs development approach with no use/addition of any custom API's.
> To divide our contribution from 'drivers/staging' submit of Aug'2019, our Kconfig key is "EXFAT_RO_FS"

How is this driver different from the driver in drivers/staging?
With the driver in staging and the upcoming driver from Samsung this
is driver number
three for exfat. ;-\

-- 
Thanks,
//richard