From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:14:21 -0700 Message-ID: <20090504181421.GI6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20090504130638.GN7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504132119.GX8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504143919.GA6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504150834.GZ8822@parisc-linux.org> <1241451391.20170.12.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <1241453259.20170.17.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <20090504174931.GG6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504175414.GC8822@parisc-linux.org> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Dave Kleikamp , tridge@samba.org, Al Viro , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML To: Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:44905 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752911AbZEDSOZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 14:14:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504175414.GC8822@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:54:14AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:49:31AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Ah, but you are not simply asking us to -do- our homework, but also to > > make that homework public on LKML. Please note that Matthew's earlier > > email indicates that he does not expect to be able to convince his > > employer to make such homework public. > > I have no data upon which to make a judgement as to the probability > of my lawyer doing anything. The implication I took away from your > words earlier in this thread is that _no_ lawyer is going to permit > this homework to be published. Maybe Intel's lawyers differ with IBM's > lawyers on this point. I wouldn't know. You could certainly ask them. Thanx, Paul > But all you're hearing from me is an echo of your own assertions, not > a concurrence. > > -- > 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."