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. All this innuendo is terribly unbecoming. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
