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 09:08:34 -0600 Message-ID: <20090504150834.GZ8822@parisc-linux.org> References: <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> <20090504124433.GW8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504130638.GN7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504132119.GX8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504143919.GA6740@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]:57826 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755802AbZEDPIf (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 11:08:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504143919.GA6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:39:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Bringing the patch to a public mailing list is a waste of time until > > there's a reliable description of the problem you're trying to solve. > > Please see the original patch. It does describes what it is doing. "What", but not "Why". Which is only acceptable in GNU changelogs ;-) -- 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."