On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Joseph Fannin writes: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:42:29AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > >> René Scharfe writes: > >> > >> > It has been impossible to set the option 'atari' of the MSDOS filesystem > >> > for several years. Since nobody seems to have missed it, let's remove > >> > its remains. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe > >> > --- > >> > >> Looks good to me. Thanks. > >> > >> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi > > > > Geert Uytterhoeven has a patch in his POSTPONED queue that is supposed > > to fix Atari FAT. I can't speak to whether it works or why it's > > postponed, but it seems to compile. > > I see. Although I don't know the patch, I'd like to add this part to > Geert's patch if possible. And when the patch can be posted, we can > re-add this part again. > > Geert, what do you think? It's in POSTPONED state because nobody speaks up for/against it. Personally, I don't know how much it is (still) needed... But a few years ago somebody contacted me that he used it succesfully on PA-RISC and i386 ;-) BTW, the patch is http://linux-m68k-cvs.ubb.ca/~geert/linux-m68k-patches-2.6/POSTPONED/134-atari-fat.diff Atari people, I think now is the time to let it live or die... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds