Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 04:21:36AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > How does > https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/ > change your personal opinion? According to SFC's legal analysis, Microsoft joining the OIN doesn't mean that the eXFAT patents are

Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:50:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > How have you dealt with the patent claims which Microsoft has > asserted[1] on the exFAT file system design? > > [1] > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx > > I am not making any

Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into > shape > for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except > for a number of line-too-long complaints). > > Do you want this

Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-08 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into > shape > for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except > for a number of line-too-long complaints). > > Do you want this

Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into shape for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except for a number of line-too-long complaints). Do you want this taken straight to the fs/ tree, or through drivers/staging? pgpPbWnt1mYai.pgp

Re: Procedure questions - new filesystem driver..

2019-07-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 09 Jul 2019 01:52:20 +0100, Al Viro said: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > > I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into > > shape > > for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except > > for a