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From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To:     'Greg KH' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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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. Well, technically, Valdis did the same, it's just he forked
a slightly more outdated (and not anymore used by Samsung) codebase.

	-ss