Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: exfat: remove DOSNAMEs.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 03 2020 - 03:16:04 EST


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 :)

> 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.

thanks,

greg k-h