[PATCH 2/2] exfat: add out of tree module

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 00:29:58 EDT 2020


>From an email conversation with the person responsible for upstreaming
the exFAT driver, it seems the staging one in kernel 5.4 is not so
good. Excerpts below.

Namjae Jeon:
Hm... exfat in 5.4 kernel  that we did crap shit long time ago is
contributed by someone who we don't know.
This version is unstable and low quality code. We have been improving
it continuously.
and staging version exfat is removed from linux 5.7 kernel.

linux exfat oot  version is a backport of exfat in linux 5.7 kernel to
support lower version kernel, and it is a real.
You can see the patch history fro linux-exfat-oot.
this version support timezone and boot sector verification feature newly.
and better filesystem structure and much clean code quality that
reviewed by high profile kernel developers. and add many bug fixes.
And this version is officially maintained by me and kernel guys.

I would not recommend to use staging exfat version.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>
---
 package/kernel/exfat/Makefile                 | 54 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../kernel/exfat/patches/010-fstream.patch    | 23 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/kernel/exfat/Makefile
 create mode 100644 package/kernel/exfat/patches/010-fstream.patch

diff --git a/package/kernel/exfat/Makefile b/package/kernel/exfat/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..539bdfd295
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/kernel/exfat/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=exfat
+PKG_VERSION:=5.8.4
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://codeload.github.com/namjaejeon/linux-exfat-oot/tar.gz/$(PKG_VERSION)?
+PKG_HASH:=47162495bdf9a7e02d6142dfcd4364d7325a4cf75a0439926cf9e8a9d959627b
+
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=
+PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0-only
+
+#PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1
+#PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0
+
+# exfat-oot's makefile needs this to know where to build the kernel module
+#export KERNELDIR:=$(LINUX_DIR)
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+#include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel-defaults.mk
+
+TAR_OPTIONS+= --strip-components 1
+TAR_CMD=$(HOST_TAR) -C $(1) $(TAR_OPTIONS)
+
+define KernelPackage/fs-exfat
+  SECTION:=kernel
+  CATEGORY:=Kernel modules
+  SUBMENU:=Filesystems
+  TITLE:=exFAT kernel module
+  FILES:=$(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/exfat.ko
+  AUTOLOAD:=$(call AutoProbe,exfat)
+endef
+
+define KernelPackage/exfat/description
+  This package provides the kernel module for exfat.
+endef
+
+define Build/Compile
+	$(KERNEL_MAKE) M="$(PKG_BUILD_DIR)" \
+	EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" \
+	$(PKG_EXTRA_KCONFIG) \
+	CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=m \
+	modules
+#	$(MAKE) -C $(KERNEL_BUILD_DIR)/linux-$(LINUX_VERSION) M="$(PKG_BUILD_DIR)" modules
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call KernelPackage,fs-exfat))
diff --git a/package/kernel/exfat/patches/010-fstream.patch b/package/kernel/exfat/patches/010-fstream.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc1221c611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/kernel/exfat/patches/010-fstream.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- a/super.c
++++ b/super.c
+@@ -292,14 +292,14 @@ static const struct fs_parameter_spec exfat_param_specs[] = {
+ #endif
+ 	fsparam_flag("discard",			Opt_discard),
+ 	fsparam_s32("time_offset",		Opt_time_offset),
+-	__fsparam(NULL, "utf8",			Opt_utf8, fs_param_deprecated,
+-		  NULL),
+-	__fsparam(NULL, "debug",		Opt_debug, fs_param_deprecated,
+-		  NULL),
++	__fsparam(NULL, "utf8",			Opt_utf8, fs_param_deprecated
++		  ),
++	__fsparam(NULL, "debug",		Opt_debug, fs_param_deprecated
++		  ),
+ 	__fsparam(fs_param_is_u32, "namecase",	Opt_namecase,
+-		  fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
++		  fs_param_deprecated),
+ 	__fsparam(fs_param_is_u32, "codepage",	Opt_codepage,
+-		  fs_param_deprecated, NULL),
++		  fs_param_deprecated),
+ 	{}
+ };
+ 
-- 
2.26.2




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