Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756008AbZGALsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:48:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752608AbZGALsq (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:48:46 -0400 Received: from ip67-152-220-66.z220-152-67.customer.algx.net ([67.152.220.66]:20030 "EHLO daytona.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbZGALsp (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:48:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4B4D1D.8070308@panasas.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:48:45 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090315 Remi/3.0-0.b2.fc10.remi Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tridge@samba.org CC: Pavel Machek , OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> <19019.16217.291678.588673@samba.org> In-Reply-To: <19019.16217.291678.588673@samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jul 2009 11:48:49.0347 (UTC) FILETIME=[E5E35930:01C9FA41] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 34 On 07/01/2009 01:50 PM, tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > We did of course consider that, and the changes to the patch to > implement collision avoidance are relatively simple. We didn't do it > as it would weaken the legal basis behind the patch. I'll leave it to > John Lanza (the LF patent attorney) to expand on that if you want more > information. > You completely lost me here. And I thought I did understand the patent and the fix. what is the difference between. short_name = rand(sid); and short_name = sid++; Now if you would do short_name = MD5(long_name); That I understand since short_name is some function of long_name but if I'm just inventing the short_name out of my hat. In what legal system does it matter what is my random function I use? > Cheers, Tridge Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/