Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604AbZGBAet (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752218AbZGBAek (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:34:40 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:59335 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751571AbZGBAek (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:34:40 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:04:41 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-13-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) Cc: 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 References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090701122558.3a7c80d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090701122558.3a7c80d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907021004.41907.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 20 On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:55:58 pm Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd actually prefer to see the code ripped out and no config option > > available; it would the clearest avoidance case possible. > > What about the free world - why should we suffer because Americans have > a broken patent system ? That just leads to a Farenheit 451 model where > the kernel sources end up containing no code, text or image that can > offend, harm or be found wanting in any possible legal jurisdiction. We put in workarounds for broken hardware, even though we rightfully dislike it. Similarly, in this case a minor change prevents a real problem experienced by our users (yes, I know we only have one public bug report). It's bad. Yes, let's bitch about it. And workaround it anyway. Rusty. -- 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/