Bug 1792613

Summary:	Please enable new exfat kernel driver
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew <travneff>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	airlied, andy, bskeggs, hdegoede, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, josephpfidler, kernel-maint, linville, masami256, mchehab, mjg59, steved, thib, travneff, y9t7sypezp
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Description Andrew 2020-01-18 12:36:05 UTC

Kernel 5.4 obtained own exfat driver, but it's not enabled currently:

# grep EXFAT /boot/config-5.4.8-200.fc31.x86_64
# CONFIG_EXFAT_FS is not set

It should be good alternative to exfat-fuse for this popular FS.

Comment 1 Andrew 2020-02-03 11:24:08 UTC

Still absent for 5.4.15-200.fc31:

#  grep EXFAT /boot/config-5.4.15-200.fc31.x86_64
# CONFIG_EXFAT_FS is not set

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2020-03-09 15:44:03 UTC

The exfat driver will be enabled when it is promoted from staging.

Comment 3 Andrew 2020-03-12 14:01:38 UTC

Latest news tell that current driver will be removed: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Staging-exFAT-Nuking-5.7

Comment 4 Steve 2020-05-29 05:09:41 UTC

EXFAT is enabled here:

$ grep CONFIG_EXFAT lib/modules/5.7.0-0.rc7.1.fc33.x86_64/config  # extracted from kernel-core-5.7.0-0.rc7.1.fc33.x86_64.rpm
CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="utf8"

kernel-5.7.0-0.rc7.1.fc33
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-173e34c496

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 16:11:55 UTC

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Comment 6 Andrew 2020-11-03 18:42:42 UTC

I see exfat module in stock Fedora 33 kernel, so closing the ticket:

/lib/modules/5.8.16-300.fc33.x86_64/kernel/fs/exfat/exfat.ko.xz