From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754992AbZEEU5q (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 16:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753772AbZEEU5f (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 16:57:35 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:39918 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753309AbZEEU5e (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 16:57:34 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Newall Cc: Theodore Tso , "Eric W. Biederman" , Chris Friesen , Dave Kleikamp , Matthew Wilcox , "Paul E. McKenney" , tridge@samba.org, Al Viro , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , Ogawa Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel , Michael Tokarev , LKML , Olivier Galibert Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:05 +0930." <4A001E51.4070903@davidnewall.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20090504124129.GL7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504124433.GW8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504130638.GN7141@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504132119.GX8822@parisc-linux.org> <20090504143919.GA6740@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090504150834.GZ8822@parisc-linux.org> <1241451391.20170.12.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <1241453259.20170.17.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> <20090504230357.GI6766@mit.edu> <4A001E51.4070903@davidnewall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1241556990_96868P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:56:30 -0400 Message-ID: <109151.1241556990@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1241556990_96868P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:05 +0930, David Newall said: > Whether your patch goes in; whether it doesn't; it now seems there's > something fishy about long filenames, and to be safe, perhaps it would > be better to just turn off anything to do with FAT filesystems. Who > would care, right? Unless i turns out that Linux no longer has the > essential features. > > Unless disrupting Linux was the point, and of course it isn't, it seems > that full disclosure is required. And that's before any patch should > even be looked at. Well, VFAT was in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or so, back in 1982, and a patent only runs 17 years. So that clock's been ticking for quite some time. Heck, one could probably make a case that if Microsoft hasn't officially squawked *yet* about code that infringes on anything that was released in '82, that they've basically estoppell'd themselves. Of course, some spoil-sport is going to come along and say that submarine patents don't work that way. ;) --==_Exmh_1241556990_96868P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKAKf+cC3lWbTT17ARAnb3AJ9xfeShW5wJGMuG8BMIEeqEmaqChACeIr0G PT55JFxpP0DzBhf1RsBuohQ= =ldZ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1241556990_96868P--