From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: tridge@samba.org
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
       Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:36:13 +0900
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tridge@samba.org writes:

>  > I have no objection to take this patch for the -stable releases when it
>  > goes into Linus's tree.  Just forward the git commit ids to
>  > stable@kernel.org and I can take care of it.
>
> ok, thanks Greg.
>
> Hirofumi-san tells me we've missed the merge window for 2.6.31, so it
> seems that this will go first into the fatfs tree, then go into
> Linus's tree via -next for 2.6.32. So hopefully the patch will get
> some more testing (perhaps in -mm?) before it needs to be considered
> for -stable.

Yes. And I will not drop this patch even if it's not perfect on test. I
can understand it would not be the option for some users. The default
may be arguable though, like I said at first.

My choice is to provide the option of those to users.

> Meanwhile some of the distros and other vendors might decide to apply
> it sooner depending on their level of legal concern.

Yes, it's good.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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