Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04T16:43:08Z

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:30:20AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > That's for the maintainers to decide. If they agree it has worth, maybe
> > it's a good idea to answer "How".
>
> Al and Christoph said essentially the same thing and they generally
> are considered the general area filesystem maintainers.
>
> This kind of thing does not appear to have come up before and
> so procedurally you guys are setting are attempting to set
> a precedent.
>
> All I know is that doing it the way you are doing seems like a bad
> idea. Not discussing things or even the reason you can't discuss them
> seems foolish and leaves no one satisfied.
>
> Maybe there are good reasons but so far this whole thing just stinks.
>
> When all of the pieces are public how can having secret veiled reasons
> make sense?
>
> And if secret magic consultations with lawyers are going to be invoked
> I expect we should have a Signed-off-by from those lawyers.

;-)

Matthew's idea of checking with SFLC seems to me to have some merit.
I am looking into this from my end. Of course, you and Al and Christoph
have just as much standing to ask SFLC as do I, and perhaps more.

Thanx, Paul