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.. -- 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
