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Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:34:31 -0700
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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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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.

							Thanx, Paul