Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-04T13:21:31Z

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 06:06:38AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 06:44:33AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:41:29AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > I am not sure that I correctly parsed these three sentences, but the
> > > justification should be pretty clear to anyone who has been paying any
> > > attention at all to recent industry news.
> >
> > I think if there's one thing less reliable than an engineer's opinion
> > on a patent, it's a journalist's opinion on a patent lawsuit.
>
> And hence discussing these sorts of non-technical issues on LKML is kind
> of pointless, you are saying? I certainly cannot disagree with that!

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.
All this innuendo is terribly unbecoming.

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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."