Hi Alan, > They can type > > patch -p1 < linux-foundation-recommended-ussa-fat.patch > > which removes all the subversive terrorist code that Americans are scared > to posess. I think you'll find that most distro makers and most vendors of Linux based devices will want to have this patch applied. So if we took the approach you suggest, then the testing done via kernel.org trees will not match what the vast majority of Linux users will actually be running. That would seem to be counter to good QA practices. If the patch had significant negative consequences for normal use then I'd be proposing the default be for dualnames to be enabled, which is why the first patch I posted in May that disabled creation of long filenames defaulted to off. So please do as much testing as you have time for, and I'll continue to ask people to let me try their mobile phones with a microSD card and see how many different embedded OSes I can test that way. So far the count is zero devices affected in a negative way by the proposed patch. If we get some real examples of devices that are badly affected then we could revisit the question of what the default should be. With the count at zero it seems counter-productive to disable this change in the git trees that will allow it to get some wider testing. Cheers, Tridge -- 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
