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Almost all of this portion of the thread is off-topic for gentoo-dev, so |
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I'll leave it alone, and will be more than willing to take it up |
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somewhere else it is on-topic for, like linux-kernel, if you want to. |
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But, there is one thing I do want to ask/comment on, as it is relevant |
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to users of Gentoo: |
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:29:39PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> >> 4. Risk of patent trolls |
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> > I know of no kernel patches outside of the tree because of this, do you? |
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> There is compatibility code for DOS long filenames in fat that is no |
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> longer in-tree because of this. |
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I remember the conversations that a number of us had a few years ago |
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about this potential issue, but do not see any in-kernel changes that |
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were ever made because of that. Could you point me at the changes that |
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were made that were accepted into the kernel.org tree? |
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thanks, |
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gerg k-h |
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