Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Aug 28 2019 - 13:00:29 EST


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Valdis KlÄtnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
>
> The exfat code needs a lot of work to get it into "real" shape for
> the fs/ part of the kernel, so put it into drivers/staging/ for now so
> that it can be worked on by everyone in the community.
>
> The full specification of the filesystem can be found at:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification
>
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 5 +
> drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/staging/exfat/Kconfig | 39 +
> drivers/staging/exfat/Makefile | 10 +
> drivers/staging/exfat/TODO | 12 +
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat.h | 973 ++++++
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_blkdev.c | 136 +
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c | 722 +++++
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c | 3704 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_nls.c | 404 +++
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c | 4137 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_upcase.c | 740 +++++
> 13 files changed, 10885 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/TODO
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_blkdev.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_core.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_nls.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_upcase.c
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e3242687cd19..a484b36e5117 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6097,6 +6097,11 @@ F: include/trace/events/mdio.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/mdio.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/mii.h
>
> +EXFAT FILE SYSTEM
> +M: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
> +S: Maintained
> +F: fs/exfat/

Oops, I messed this line up. I moved this to drivers/staging/ and I
forgot to update this line. I'll do it in a follow-on patch.

thanks,

greg k-h