linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] add the latest exfat driver

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Date:   Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:48:20 -0500
From:   "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
To:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, hch@....de, sj1557.seo@...sung.com,
        linkinjeon@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] add the latest exfat driver

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 03:17:47 -0500, Namjae Jeon said:
> This adds the latest Samsung exfat driver to fs/exfat. This is an
> implementation of the Microsoft exFAT specification. Previous versions
> of this shipped with millions of Android phones, an a random previous
> snaphot has been merged in drivers/staging/.
>
> Compared to the sdfat driver shipped on the phones the following changes
> have been made:
>
>  - the support for vfat has been removed as that is already supported
>    by fs/fat
>  - driver has been renamed to exfat
>  - the code has been refactored and clean up to fully integrate into
>    the upstream Linux version and follow the Linux coding style
>  - metadata operations like create, lookup and readdir have been further
>    optimized
>  - various major and minor bugs have been fixed
>
> We plan to treat this version as the future upstream for the code base
> once merged, and all new features and bug fixes will go upstream first.

For the record, I'm totally OK with this and glad to see more up-to-date code
than the codebase I was working from.

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