Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932429AbZKBUNf (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932353AbZKBUNe (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:34 -0500 Received: from icculus.org ([67.106.77.212]:55329 "EHLO icculus.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932338AbZKBUNe (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:13:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Ryan C. Gordon" X-X-Sender: icculus@caridad.icculuslan To: Alan Cox cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: FatELF patches... In-Reply-To: <20091102185315.6326e148@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <1257103201.2865.6.camel@chumley> <20091102000147.424f104b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091102185315.6326e148@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (OSX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 20 > You've not shown a single meaningful use case yet. I feel like we're at the point where we're each making points of various quality and the other person is going "nuh-uh." You mentioned the patent thing and I don't have an answer at all yet from a lawyer. Let's table this for awhile until I have more information about that. If there's going to be a patent problem, it's not worth wasting everyone's time any further. If it turns out to be no big deal, we can decide to revisit this. --ryan. -- 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/