Hi Emmanuel, CC Michael
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:28 AM Emmanuel Kasper <m...@debian.org> wrote: > > Note that we still have a few out-of-tree kernel patches for Atari FAT > > support as well, cfr. the top 3 commits of > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/log/?h=m68k-queue > > > > Needs some love from a knowledgeable person to send this upstream... > > > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > > Hi Geert ! > I had a look at the patches as I was dabbling in GEMDOS FAT handling > these days, and I have to say I don't understand the purpose of the > commit you mentioned: > > fat: Atari FAT updates > Add support for the Atari-variant of the FAT filesystem > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/commit/?h=m68k-queue&id=501bd95410f8347ed80bff873498db7a1b044457 > > to the best of my knowledge, Linux was always able to mount Atari FAT > partitions, as long as the logical sector size of the FAT was up to 4096 > bytes, this limit itself coming from > https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/071a0578b0ce0b0e543d1e38ee6926b9cc21c198/fs/fat/inode.c#L1508 > > what problem is being fixed, or new feature added with the patch ? > or am I missing something ? TBH, I don't know. This patch came from the old Linux/m68k CVS. If anyone feels it can be dropped, I can do so. If anyone feels it is needed, please submit it upstream. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
