Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04T06:49:58Z

"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> 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.

Which is a fine reason to be careful what you say, and to say
reasonable things. It is not a reason to submit a patch without
justification.

If the reason for submitting a patch is not sufficiently good to be
held to then it appears insufficient to merge the patch.

Why should the commit to a position at your urging that you aren't
willing to commit to?

Eric