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

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Feb 03 2020 - 03:29:51 EST


On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 08:15:59AM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

Sure, but I think people also like to believe that their cleanup patches
are making a difference. In this case, they're just churning code that's
only weeks away from deletion.

> > 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.

I meant the cleanup people. Obviously _some_ people are working on the
Samsung codebase.