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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:20:32 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 06:03:49PM +0200, Pali Roh?r wrote:
>On Wednesday 16 October 2019 10:31:13 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:03:53PM +0200, Pali Roh?r wrote:
>> > On Friday 30 August 2019 09:56:47 Pali Roh?r wrote:
>> > > On Thursday 29 August 2019 19:35:06 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > > > With regards to missing specs/docs/whatever - our main concern with this
>> > > > release was that we want full interoperability, which is why the spec
>> > > > was made public as-is without modifications from what was used
>> > > > internally. There's no "secret sauce" that Microsoft is hiding here.
>> > >
>> > > Ok, if it was just drop of "current version" of documentation then it
>> > > makes sense.
>> > >
>> > > > How about we give this spec/code time to get soaked and reviewed for a
>> > > > bit, and if folks still feel (in a month or so?) that there are missing
>> > > > bits of information related to exfat, I'll be happy to go back and try
>> > > > to get them out as well.
>> >
>> > Hello Sasha!
>> >
>> > Now one month passed, so do you have some information when missing parts
>> > of documentation like TexFAT would be released to public?
>>
>> Sure, I'll see if I can get an approval to open it up.
>
>Ok!
>
>> Can I assume you will be implementing TexFAT support once the spec is
>> available?
>
>I cannot promise that I would implement something which I do not know
>how is working... It depends on how complicated TexFAT is and also how
>future exfat support in kernel would look like.
>
>But I'm interesting in implementing it.

Sure, thank you. This is more to let me tell my management that "there
is someone who wants to work on it" rather than committing you to do
that work :)

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha