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Message-ID: <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:46:01 +0000
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Tetsuhiro Kohada <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp>,
devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
Mori.Takahiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
motai.hirotaka@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 12:29:38AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
We can't tell people to work on :)
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