From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:57:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20090503215727.GF1368@ucw.cz> References: <524f69650905011318m34e0027dt57877d225b3fe2da@mail.gmail.com> <20090501210109.GA3079@infradead.org> <20090502013729.GI6996@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090502015927.GJ8822@parisc-linux.org> <18940.3862.34000.615391@samba.org> <20090502092204.GA32066@infradead.org> <18940.4762.726933.677059@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , "Paul E. McKenney" , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML To: tridge@samba.org Return-path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:34609 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756204AbZECV5f (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2009 17:57:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18940.4762.726933.677059@samba.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat 2009-05-02 19:30:02, tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > > At that point you shouldn't even bother to send a patch. > > The non-technical reasons for this patch are available to anyone who > cares to read any of the many news sites that discuss recent > events. The fact that I can't discuss those reasons shouldn't preclude Is reading /. now required part of patch reviewer's day? You are 1) submitting the patch 2) saying that reasons for it are non-technical and obvious 3) saying that you can't tell us the reasons. Well if they are obvious, please get us someone who _can_ discuss them with us. Preferably a lawyer that can explain why the patch is neccessary. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html