Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of fat/vfat

From: Valdis KlÄtnieks
Date: Mon Sep 02 2019 - 15:00:29 EST


On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:25:24 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:

> I dug up my old discussion with the current vfat maintainer and he said
> something to the affect of, "leave the existing code alone, make a new
> filesystem, I don't want anything to do with exfat".
>
> And I don't blame them, vfat is fine as-is and stable and shouldn't be
> touched for new things.
>
> We can keep non-vfat filesystems from being mounted with the exfat
> codebase, and make things simpler for everyone involved.

Ogawa:

Is this still your position, that you want exfat to be a separate module?

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