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From:   "Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:56:31 +0200, Pali Roh=E1r said:

> I'm not really sure if this exfat implementation is fully suitable for
> mainline linux kernel.
>
> In my opinion, proper way should be to implement exFAT support into
> existing fs/fat/ code instead of replacing whole vfat/msdosfs by this
> new (now staging) fat implementation.

> In linux kernel we really do not need two different implementation of
> VFAT32.

This patch however does have one major advantage over =22patch vfat to
support exfat=22 - which is that the patch exists.

If somebody comes forward with an actual =22extend vfat to do exfat=22 pa=
tch,
we should at that point have a discussion about relative merits....

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