From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: tridge@samba.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, 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: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:50:40 +0900
In-Reply-To: <20090702175627.580bdebc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (Alan Cox's message
	of "Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:56:27 +0100")
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> To my mind we need to be careful of three things
>
> - Harming the kernel to work around a potentially country specific
>   unproven problem for the benefit of a few big corporations only

My choice is to provide the option of those to users. I'm not saying to
ripping out the code for some users.

> - Getting into situations where big companies behind closed doors make
>   unaccountable decisions about a project they do not own

Now, I'm not working for any companies. I can say there is no closed
doors for me.

> - Setting trends for country specific fixups. There are a lot of
>   countries and if we keep the US happy we have to keep China happy and
>   so it goes on. Big corporations employ armies of specialists for these
>   purposes and make the gain from it. The community doesn't so it should
>   no more carry the pain of it than of long term stable releases and
>   supporting five year old vendor kernels

I'm just thinking about users. If vendors shipped the buggy code like
first buggy patch, I just thought it's more bad for our users. That's
all.

If there is community decision, I'll be really glad to follow it.

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