Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755941AbZGUTgv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755923AbZGUTgu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:50 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:27436 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755921AbZGUTgt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:49 -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=EyVVNRiQwSczDc4C5Wm779fqx20Ik9OgPEvKnp+1R0CxjXRnbIxtI/flflpkI1K5A7 PJwJtfZ0Y7Lq4nTcvMD6RQiTL3gAkUg4ExQYgJCXpSz3CMJcZz8HUGCoEOH6oBGOg8zP Wayrs4z8FlApu/8SV/WhLbatqfS5dQU8+Xxyg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: john.lanza@linux.com In-Reply-To: <4bbed3f70907210808m2c90ee4frd3470c1a1310758b@mail.gmail.com> References: <19028.3736.892828.352905@samba.org> <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> <4bbed3f70907210808m2c90ee4frd3470c1a1310758b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4bbed3f70907211236k736bc43ase3ed1c90f8ee92d8@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: 1607 Lines: 39 Resending in plain text.......... On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, John Lanza wrote: > > 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/