From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
info@fsf.org, office@fsfeurope.org, info@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:21:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238512897.27596.579.camel@skunk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903311602.41272.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 16:02 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> I've not heard of Linux providing an MTP responder ("server"),
> which I find mildly surprising as it sounds like it would be useful,
> particularly given the range of advanced filesystems Linux devices might like
> to leverage under the hood. It seems odd if an embedded Linux company hasn't
> already coded this up for a device ... ?
I'm speaking out of my ass here, but seeing how Microsoft managed to
sneak some patents into something as trivial as FAT, I'm pretty sure MTP
is a hell of a minefield.
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-31 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 8:15 Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media Martin Steigerwald
2009-03-31 12:57 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 13:47 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-03-31 15:02 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 15:21 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2009-03-31 15:53 ` Mark Williamson
2009-04-02 17:51 ` Bryan Henderson
2009-04-03 8:28 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-04-05 6:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-05 13:30 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2009-04-05 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-06 19:46 ` Nicholas Miell
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