On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 05:01:09PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:18:20PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > For those manufacturers who who would like to disable > > creation of long file names, but allow reading long file names, > > and handle FAT32 on disk format and maximum sizes, it seems > > reasonable to give them a simple configure option for it. It is > > harder, and less effective, to make the corresponding change > > to modify the mount helper and kernel code to add > > a new mount option, because it can be bypassed trivially > > at the command line (ie having to "force" mount to pass a "nolongfilename" > > mount option, would be harder than a simple kernel configure option) > > Steve, can you please stop the bullshitting? > > >From the complete lack of technical arguments it's pretty obvious that > this seems to be some FUD fallout from the MS vs TomTom patent lawsuite. > > I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how much of a threat it is. But either > the case gets shot down by showing prior art and everything is fine, or > we indeed are in deep trouble and should remove it completely. Given > the Cc list on here IBM seems to have some legal opinion on it, so can > we please see it and discuss what we want to with all cards on the > table? Hello, Christoph! Hmmm... Both Tridge and Dave have Signed-off-by on the original patch, and Steve has Acked-by, Mingming has Cc, and Dave is on the From list rather than the Cc list, so I have to guess that there is a good chance that you are talking about me. ;-) However, as far as I know, none of us are lawyers, and LKML is definitely a technical rather than a legal forum, so we really do need to stick to technical topics. I understand that this might be a bit frustrating to you. On the other hand, I for one much prefer being in a forum restricted to technical topics than to be in those places designed to handle legal topics! I suspect that this is not the answer that you were looking for, and I do apologize for any disappointment, but this does happen to be the answer that I have. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
