linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.

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Message-ID: <20200203080532.GF8731@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 00:05:32 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Tetsuhiro Kohada <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp>
Cc:     Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mori.Takahiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        motai.hirotaka@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:31:17AM +0900, Tetsuhiro Kohada wrote:
> remove 'dos_name','ShortName' and related definitions.
> 
> 'dos_name' and 'ShortName' are definitions before VFAT.
> These are never used in exFAT.

Why are we still seeing patches for the exfat in staging?  Why are people
not working on the Samsung code base?