From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 02:38:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20090502063846.GB7905@infradead.org> References: <524f69650905011318m34e0027dt57877d225b3fe2da@mail.gmail.com> <20090501210109.GA3079@infradead.org> <20090502021258.GJ7681@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Theodore Tso , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Ogawa Hirofumi Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57591 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbZEBGir (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 02:38:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090502021258.GJ7681@mit.edu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > So I don't believe removing the code is the right thing to do. I do > believe that giving people who build and use the Linux kernel choice > is a good thing; consider that digital cameras manufactures have > adhered to a 8.3 filenames, which is encoded in the DCIM standard, for > 15+ years --- and I don't believe that's an accident. What might lead > one company to settle and another one to fight and another to decide > to evade the issue, may depend on many things, and may have very > little have to do with Truth or Ethics or Morality. Welcome to the > law and business as practiced in our civilized society. Still not reason to make this a config option. There's not reason Tom Tom can't just put a patch in to disable what they want. Then again I have the feeling this whole thing goes deeper than people want to make it appear. When a patch authored by person A gets sent by person B with a total nonsense patch description talking around the reason why it's submitted Ccing a dozend people something is fishy and I want this resolved first. > (But hey, at least we don't torture people! :-) We don't? Guess I missed the memo..