From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 06:44:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20090504124433.GW8822@parisc-linux.org> References: <524f69650905011318m34e0027dt57877d225b3fe2da@mail.gmail.com> <20090501210109.GA3079@infradead.org> <20090502013729.GI6996@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090503225616.GD8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090504063431.GK7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504124129.GL7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , tridge@samba.org, Al Viro , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Dave Kleikamp , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML To: "Paul E. McKenney" Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:33612 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753010AbZEDMod (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 08:44:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504124129.GL7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:41:29AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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. I think if there's one thing less reliable than an engineer's opinion on a patent, it's a journalist's opinion on a patent lawsuit. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."