Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756144AbZGBKc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:32:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753309AbZGBKct (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:32:49 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:43515 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753193AbZGBKcs (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:32:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:33:51 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: tridge@samba.org Cc: Theodore Tso , Rusty Russell , 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 Message-ID: <20090702113351.41037d87@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <19020.4239.587690.363822@samba.org> 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> <20090701151727.38928bd9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <19020.4239.587690.363822@samba.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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: 26 On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:42:39 +1000 tridge@samba.org wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > > There really was no such thing as "vfat" anyway. VFAT in the Windows > > > > In the eyes of the end user there is such a thing as vfat. This is about > > expectations not technical issues. > > Do you have an example of an end user device that would be affected by > this change, and which is never distributed in any of the countries > where a varient of this patent exists? You gave one: Microsoft Windows XP. Risk of very rare system crashes. Thats enough in a high reliability environment to require the file system in question is banned from use site wide at may locations. Can't have a flash card bringing down a windows dependant US destroyer can they. Getting "not vfat" by suprise is thus really really bad -- 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/