From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Tetsuhiro Kohada <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@dc.mitsubishielectric.co.jp>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
Mori.Takahiro@ab.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
motai.hirotaka@aj.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:40:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f67af4339e0b9b56b43fb78ebab73e05009e307.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com>
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 09:46 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)
That's more an argument to remove exfat from staging
sooner than later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-03 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-03 16:31 Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-02-03 8:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-03 8:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03 8:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-03 9:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03 10:40 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-02-03 10:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03 16:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: exfat: dedicate count_entries() to sub-dir counting Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-02-07 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs Greg Kroah-Hartman
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