Messages in this thread | | | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option | Date | Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:50:40 +0900 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> To my mind we need to be careful of three things > > - Harming the kernel to work around a potentially country specific > unproven problem for the benefit of a few big corporations only
My choice is to provide the option of those to users. I'm not saying to ripping out the code for some users.
> - Getting into situations where big companies behind closed doors make > unaccountable decisions about a project they do not own
Now, I'm not working for any companies. I can say there is no closed doors for me.
> - Setting trends for country specific fixups. There are a lot of > countries and if we keep the US happy we have to keep China happy and > so it goes on. Big corporations employ armies of specialists for these > purposes and make the gain from it. The community doesn't so it should > no more carry the pain of it than of long term stable releases and > supporting five year old vendor kernels
I'm just thinking about users. If vendors shipped the buggy code like first buggy patch, I just thought it's more bad for our users. That's all.
If there is community decision, I'll be really glad to follow it.
Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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