Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753722AbZGAQTS (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753238AbZGAQTF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:19:05 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:48492 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbZGAQTE (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:19:04 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4A4B8C3F.60002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:18:07 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090523 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Rusty Russell , Pavel Machek , tridge@samba.org, 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> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090701122558.3a7c80d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090701140503.GA21185@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090701140503.GA21185@mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 28 Theodore Tso wrote: > I'll note that many of the modern-day > products actually use Linux (i.e., the Sony eReader, the Kindle, > etc. Many MP3/Video players surely do not run an embedded Linux. Besides, it doesn't matter what "many" devices run if the talk is about defaults, or even about ripping the working, proven code out of the mainline. (Well, that suggestion was absurd.) > The other big user I can think of are digital cameras, but (a) > normally most users read from them and then delete the pictures, I use my SD cards not only in the camera but also as generic mobile storage with laptops and media player. There is no way for software to detect that a medium is going to be used with a 8.3-only device exclusively. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= -=== ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/