From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: tridge@samba.org
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ogawa Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:56:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090503225616.GD8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18942.6593.544212.571063@samba.org>
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:25:05AM +1000, tridge@samba.org wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> > 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.
>
> I am trying to get that to happen, and I do realise that getting a
> lawyer to publicly explain the situation would be really
> worthwhile. Unfortunately lawyers are (mostly) very shy of making
> public statements of this type, because the legal consequences of
> making these statements can be non-trivial.
Practical consequences of establishing that kind of precedent (applying
a patch on the grounds of nothing but vague references to possibly
legal problems, with author explicitly refusing to explain exact reasons)
can also be non-trivial... And I'm not sure that it won't have legal
ones as well, while we are at it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-03 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-01 20:18 [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Steve French
2009-05-01 21:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 1:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-02 1:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-02 3:02 ` Steve French
2009-05-02 4:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-02 9:15 ` tridge
2009-05-02 9:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 9:30 ` tridge
2009-05-02 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-03 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-03 22:25 ` tridge
2009-05-03 22:56 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-05-03 23:15 ` tridge
2009-05-04 5:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 6:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 6:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 12:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 12:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 13:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 13:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 14:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 15:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 15:36 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-05-04 15:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 16:07 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-05-04 16:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 17:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 17:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 18:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 18:17 ` Al Viro
2009-05-04 20:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 17:06 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-05-04 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 20:53 ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-04 23:03 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-05 11:09 ` David Newall
2009-05-05 20:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-05-05 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 22:29 ` Steve French
2009-05-05 8:31 ` Zero-day exploit details (Was: Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option) David Newall
2009-05-04 16:11 ` [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 15:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 15:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 16:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 16:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04 22:12 ` Greg KH
2009-05-05 2:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-05 2:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-05 2:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-05 3:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-05 8:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-05-05 15:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-05 21:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-05-05 21:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-05 3:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-05-04 15:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 16:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04 15:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-05-02 6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 2:12 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-02 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-01 17:41 Dave Kleikamp
2009-05-01 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-01 18:12 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-05-01 18:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-01 19:09 ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-05-01 18:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 10:09 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 10:14 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 10:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 10:41 ` tridge
2009-05-02 11:03 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 11:13 ` tridge
2009-05-02 11:29 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 11:41 ` tridge
2009-05-02 11:59 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 12:15 ` tridge
2009-05-02 12:48 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-02 13:06 ` tridge
2009-05-02 14:01 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-27 12:05 ` vimal singh
2009-05-27 23:57 ` tridge
2009-06-04 10:26 ` vimal singh
2009-06-04 21:33 ` tridge
2009-05-02 10:20 ` tridge
2009-05-02 10:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-05-03 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
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