From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: tridge@samba.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
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: Mon, 4 May 2009 05:41:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504124129.GL7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11vr5jrba.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:49:29PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:42:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> The only reason I can see for not ultimately talking about things publicly
> >> is if this is one company making shady deals with another company in which
> >> case I do not see why the maintenance burden for those decision should
> >> fall on the linux community as a whole.
> >
> > Another reason is that past experience would indicate that anything we
> > say in public and and will be used against us.
>
> Which is a fine reason to be careful what you say, and to say
> reasonable things.
I am glad you agree.
> It is not a reason to submit a patch without
> justification.
>
> If the reason for submitting a patch is not sufficiently good to be
> held to then it appears insufficient to merge the patch.
>
> Why should the commit to a position at your urging that you aren't
> willing to commit to?
I am not sure that I correctly parsed these three sentences, but the
justification should be pretty clear to anyone who has been paying any
attention at all to recent industry news.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 12:41 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
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 [this message]
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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