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 09:55:06 -0600 Message-ID: <20090504155505.GA8822@parisc-linux.org> References: <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> <20090504150834.GZ8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504153815.GB6740@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: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504153815.GB6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:38:15AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:08:34AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 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 > > Given your affiliation, you should have access to people with whom > you can have a meaningful conversation on the non-technical issues, > but without putting the Linux community at risk. Indeed I do have access to lawyers. But what use is that? I could presumably get an opinion for myself that I would not then be able to share outside of Intel. Can't you get the SFLC to issue a public legal opinion for you? Or maybe the Linux Foundation? -- 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."