linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] exfat: add the dummy mount options to be backward compatible with staging/exfat

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Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 08:28:06 +0900
From:   "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
To:     "'Al Viro'" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "'Namjae Jeon'" <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] exfat: add the dummy mount options to be backward
 compatible with staging/exfat

> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:20:34PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > As Ubuntu and Fedora release new version used kernel version equal to
> > or higher than v5.4, They started to support kernel exfat filesystem.
> >
> > Linus Torvalds reported mount error with new version of exfat on Fedora.
> >
> > 	exfat: Unknown parameter 'namecase'
> >
> > This is because there is a difference in mount option between old
> > staging/exfat and new exfat.
> > And utf8, debug, and codepage options as well as namecase have been
> > removed from new exfat.
> >
> > This patch add the dummy mount options as deprecated option to be
> > backward compatible with old one.
> >
> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
> 
> Do you want that to go via vfs.git #fixes, or would you rather have Linus apply it straight to
> mainline?
I would really appreciate if Linus apply it directly to mainline.

Thanks!