Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02T06:38:58Z

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:12:58PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> So I don't believe removing the code is the right thing to do. I do
> believe that giving people who build and use the Linux kernel choice
> is a good thing; consider that digital cameras manufactures have
> adhered to a 8.3 filenames, which is encoded in the DCIM standard, for
> 15+ years --- and I don't believe that's an accident. What might lead
> one company to settle and another one to fight and another to decide
> to evade the issue, may depend on many things, and may have very
> little have to do with Truth or Ethics or Morality. Welcome to the
> law and business as practiced in our civilized society.

Still not reason to make this a config option. There's not reason Tom
Tom can't just put a patch in to disable what they want.

Then again I have the feeling this whole thing goes deeper than people
want to make it appear. When a patch authored by person A gets sent by
person B with a total nonsense patch description talking around the
reason why it's submitted Ccing a dozend people something is fishy and I
want this resolved first.

> (But hey, at least we don't torture people! :-)

We don't? Guess I missed the memo..