linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH

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Date:	Sat, 2 May 2009 19:30:02 +1000
From:	tridge@...ba.org
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ogawa Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Hi Christoph,

 > At that point you shouldn't even bother to send a patch.

The non-technical reasons for this patch are available to anyone who
cares to read any of the many news sites that discuss recent
events. The fact that I can't discuss those reasons shouldn't preclude
me from proposing a technical solution which tries to minimise the
impact on Linux users.

I'm hoping that you and others will look at the proposed technical
solution to the non-technical problem, and perhaps suggest better
approaches. There are a wide variety of approaches to avoiding this
problem, and we need to work out which, if any, should be part of the
kernel.org releases.

Cheers, Tridge
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