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

['Greg KH']

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 03:33:04PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/18/19 08:16), 'Greg KH' wrote:
> [..]
> > > Note, that Samsung is still improving sdfat driver. For instance,
> > > what will be realeased soon is sdfat v2.3.0, which will include support
> > > for "UtcOffset" of "File Directory Entry", in order to satisfy
> > > exFAT specification 7.4.
> >
> [..]
> > If Samsung wishes to use their sdfat codebase as the "seed" to work from
> > for this, please submit a patch adding the latest version to the kernel
> > tree and we can compare and work from there.
> 
> Isn't it what Ju Hyung did? He took sdfat codebase (the most recent
> among publicly available) as the seed, cleaned it up a bit and submitted
> as a patch.

He did?  I do not see a patch anywhere, what is the message-id of it?

> Well, technically, Valdis did the same, it's just he forked a slightly
> more outdated (and not anymore used by Samsung) codebase.

He took the "best known at the time" codebase, as we had nothing else to
work with.

thanks,

greg k-h