On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:55:58 pm Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd actually prefer to see the code ripped out and no config option > > available; it would the clearest avoidance case possible. > > What about the free world - why should we suffer because Americans have > a broken patent system ? That just leads to a Farenheit 451 model where > the kernel sources end up containing no code, text or image that can > offend, harm or be found wanting in any possible legal jurisdiction. We put in workarounds for broken hardware, even though we rightfully dislike it. Similarly, in this case a minor change prevents a real problem experienced by our users (yes, I know we only have one public bug report). It's bad. Yes, let's bitch about it. And workaround it anyway. Rusty. -- 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
