Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:17:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:42:50AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > Matthew's idea of checking with SFLC seems to me to have some merit.
> > I am looking into this from my end.  Of course, you and Al and Christoph
> > have just as much standing to ask SFLC as do I, and perhaps more.
> 
> OK, enough.  Any further communication on that topic should be filtered
> through lawyers, since you apparently refuse to provide details of rationale
> for your changes due to some kind of legal issues.

Hmmm...  Sorry you feel that way.  I had hoped to avoid having you deal
directly with lawyers, but perhaps that is the way that it must be.

If so, welcome to my world.

> Whether you have a reason for such behaviour or not, continuing that thread
> is obviously pointless.  If you want a useful review, it is up to you to
> figure out the procedure that
> 	(a) would allow answering such questions when asked by those who
> will be reviewing it
> 	(b) satisfy whatever legal concerns you might have about (a)
> 	(c) satisfy whatever legal concerns said reviewers might have
> regarding the procedure in question, whatever that procedure turns out
> to be.
> 	(d) satisfy whatever legal concerns employers of said reviewers
> might have.
> 
> Until then all you are doing is busily making an ass of yourself in public
> and possibly compounding whatever legal issues you might have.

This would not be the first time I have made an ass of myself in public,
and if things go as they normally do, it would not be the last.`

Unfortunately, I do not believe that this problem is going to go away on
its own.

							Thanx, Paul