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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:45:03 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Valdis =?utf-8?Q?Kl=C4=93tnieks?= <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
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        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/exfat - by default, prohibit mount of
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:42:39PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks 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?