Re: [PATCH] fs: exFAT read-only driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software.

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Oct 20 2019 - 14:08:47 EST


On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:33 AM Konstantin Komarov
<almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Recently exFAT filesystem specification has been made public by Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification).
> Having decades of expertise in commercial file systems development, we at Paragon Software GmbH are very excited by Microsoft's decision and now want to make our contribution to the Open Source Community by providing our implementation of exFAT Read-Only (yet!) fs implementation for the Linux Kernel.
> We are about to prepare the Read-Write support patch as well.
> 'fs/exfat' is implemented accordingly to standard Linux fs development approach with no use/addition of any custom API's.
> To divide our contribution from 'drivers/staging' submit of Aug'2019, our Kconfig key is "EXFAT_RO_FS"

How is this driver different from the driver in drivers/staging?
With the driver in staging and the upcoming driver from Samsung this
is driver number
three for exfat. ;-\

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Thanks,
//richard