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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 12:45:07 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:42:39PM -0400, Valdis KlÄtnieks wrote:
> Concerns have been raised about the exfat driver accidentally mounting
> fat/vfat file systems. Add an extra configure option to help prevent that.

Just remove that code. This is exactly what I fear about this staging
crap, all kinds of half-a***ed patches instead of trying to get anything
done. Given that you signed up as the maintainer for this what is your
plan forward on it? What development did you on the code and what are
your next steps?