Re: udev and friends not able to mount Atari GEMDOS partition

[Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org>]

> 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 ?

Emmanuel