Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 May 2009 07:21:19 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option |
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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."
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