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

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Message-ID: <20200203082938.GG8731@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 00:29:38 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Tetsuhiro Kohada <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        motai.hirotaka@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        Mori.Takahiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 08:15:59AM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Because people like doing cleanup patches :)

Sure, but I think people also like to believe that their cleanup patches
are making a difference.  In this case, they're just churning code that's
only weeks away from deletion.

> > Why are people not working on the Samsung code base?
> 
> They are, see the patches on the list, hopefully they get merged after
> -rc1 is out.

I meant the cleanup people.  Obviously _some_ people are working on the
Samsung codebase.