Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368AbZGUPQa (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:16:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755348AbZGUPQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:16:29 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]:18444 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754542AbZGUPQ1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:16:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D8UDvMU2G4gPruRJXtXJzCkYZtzTQkVp2FvNalDxiPON2ok7V5f8CQPYdSyyP9NhSN I7fDCfsYMWVtMIGmJRAxeDvhvv21iLnq/sOHx4gWGQ1JooCznYPpPoxXIGzIK7xKtuGV 55EaY/qfZ/K05rvfhjS4r64nTMj3ovYoQbMZ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: john.lanza@linux.com In-Reply-To: <19045.49553.738185.211806@samba.org> References: <19028.3736.892828.352905@samba.org> <20090708163736.0f98e7e0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1247069202.4159.212.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090708171848.21633768@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <873a96a23x.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87hbxhwv0j.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <19045.14307.658887.752950@samba.org> <4A65875D.7030902@panasas.com> <20090721103158.GG4133@elf.ucw.cz> <19045.49553.738185.211806@samba.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:08:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4bbed3f70907210808m2c90ee4frd3470c1a1310758b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions From: John Lanza To: tridge@samba.org Cc: Pavel Machek , Boaz Harrosh , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , Martin Steigerwald , Jan Engelhardt , Theodore Tso , Rusty Russell , OGAWA Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , corbet@lwn.net, jcm@jonmasters.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1441 Lines: 35 All: I think the email I just sent applies here, as well. And I echo Tridge's sentiments about giving me a shout if you have some idea for qorkarounds. I'm here to be a sounding board for you. johnl On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:24 AM, wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > ?> Actually, why not having dosfsck creating _matching_ short names for > ?> long names? As it only writes short names, it should be safe :-). > > As I mentioned to Boaz, what usually matters for claim construction in > patents is the overall system. I'm sure John Lanza would be happy to > run through it with you if you want a more legally detailed answer, > but basically breaking it up within the one system isn't likely to > help us. > > Like I mentioned to Boaz though, do keep thinking about it. There may > well be a better solution that nobody has suggested yet. You might > also like to read the file wrapper (availble on the USPTO site) which > shows the discussions between the patent office and the > applicant. That is often a good source of inspiration for patent > workarounds. If you think you've found something then it might be a > good idea to raise it with John Lanza first. > > Cheers, Tridge > -- 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/