From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B42C33CAC for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B5B20661 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727918AbgBCKl6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2020 05:41:58 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0020.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.20]:50236 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726884AbgBCKl5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2020 05:41:57 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32D5121A; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:41:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: range25_4ab6e8725fd55 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2515 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.135.224]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5f67af4339e0b9b56b43fb78ebab73e05009e307.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs. From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Matthew Wilcox Cc: Tetsuhiro Kohada , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Valdis Kletnieks , Mori.Takahiro@ab.mitsubishielectric.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, motai.hirotaka@aj.mitsubishielectric.co.jp, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 02:40:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com> References: <20200203163118.31332-1-Kohada.Tetsuhiro@dc.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp> <20200203080532.GF8731@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200203081559.GA3038628@kroah.com> <20200203082938.GG8731@bombadil.infradead.org> <20200203094601.GA3040887@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.