Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2020 00:29:38 -0800 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs. |
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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.
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