Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Paul E. McKenney
2009-05-04T14:39:37Z

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:21:19AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

Please see the original patch. It does describes what it is doing.

> All this innuendo is terribly unbecoming.

Ack that!!!

Thanx, Paul