Thanks to everyone for the lively debate on this patch. If nothing else it has served to highlight the issue of whether the Linux kernel should incorporate patent workarounds. The open debate on this has been very valuable I think. Thank you also to Hirofumi-san for taking the time to consider my proposed patch. It was an exhausting debate, and I appreciate the effort that Hirofumi-san has put in to read through such complex arguments. I have created a directory on kernel.org containing the patch, and a README which documents the interoperability concerns that were raised during the discussion of the patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tridge/VFAT/ I have also created a git tree incorporating the patch, based on the fatfs-2.6 tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tridge/fatfs-dualnames.git Hirofumi-san, could you look at 04f4db5202d2d3ec9b8e780b913c1f1dd3881745 in my tree and consider that separately for inclusion in your tree? The patch is also available here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tridge/fatfs-dualnames.git;a=commitdiff;h=04f4db5202d2d3ec9b8e780b913c1f1dd3881745 I will continue to try to address the technical concerns that have been raised. I appreciate the testing that has been done by many people on this list, and I hope that testing will continue. If I am able to make substantial progress on the technical issues that have been raised then I will re-submit the patch for consideration for inclusion in the upstream kernel. 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
