Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 26.09.2013 12:41, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > >Anton, I already told you politely in a private email that you are being > >offtopic. This is professional email list for programmers. Most of us > >are forbidden to discuss laws exc

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-26 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 26.09.2013 12:41, schrieb Dan Carpenter: Anton, I already told you politely in a private email that you are being offtopic. This is professional email list for programmers. Most of us are forbidden to discuss laws except with our corporate legal dept. None of us are lawyers. We're not quali

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-26 Thread Dan Carpenter
Anton, I already told you politely in a private email that you are being offtopic. This is professional email list for programmers. Most of us are forbidden to discuss laws except with our corporate legal dept. None of us are lawyers. We're not qualified to read any of your links or interpret ho

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-26 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On 25 Sep 2013, at 23:29, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 26.09.2013 00:10, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: >> Please stick to technical discussions about the code on the kernel >> mailing lists. Legal discussions can be left up to the lawyers, of >> which we are not. > > Hmm, but I would like to

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-26 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On 25 Sep 2013, at 23:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:44:15PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: Maybe a silly question, but is

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:29:03AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 26.09.2013 00:10, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > > Please stick to technical discussions about the code on the kernel > > mailing lists. Legal discussions can be left up to the lawyers, of > > which we are not. > > Hmm, but

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 26.09.2013 00:10, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > Please stick to technical discussions about the code on the kernel > mailing lists. Legal discussions can be left up to the lawyers, of > which we are not. Hmm, but I would like to know if someone has to fear getting owned by Microsoft if he wou

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: >> >> Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned >> patents which might drive Linux users into the hand of MS lawyers as >> already happened with FA

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:57:21PM +0200, Benjamin Valentin wrote: > Am Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:27:04 -0700 > schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman : > > > > > Also, I would really like to get a signed-off-by: from the Samsung > > > > authors for this patch, can you do that as well please? > > > > > > I've trie

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:44:15PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hi, > > On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > >> > >> Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned > >> patents whi

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 25.09.2013 23:44, schrieb Anton Altaparmakov: > Hi, > > On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> >>> Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned >>> patents which might drive Linux use

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Benjamin Valentin
Am Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:27:04 -0700 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman : > > > Also, I would really like to get a signed-off-by: from the Samsung > > > authors for this patch, can you do that as well please? > > > > I've tried reaching them by their last public e-mail addresses I > > could find, but they

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 25.09.2013 22:21, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned patents which might drive Linux users into the hand of MS lawyers as already happened with FAT? It would make me

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 20:45, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > >>> Who did you contact at Samsun

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 25.09.2013 20:45, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >>> Who did you contact at Samsung? I'll be visiting there in a week so I >>> can try to track some people d

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Who did you contact at Samsung? I'll be visiting there in a week so I > can try to track some people done in person. I really want their > signed-off-by: on the patch, as it is their code to start with, and it's > a bit rude t

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Who did you contact at Samsung? I'll be visiting there in a week so I > > can try to track some people done in person. I really want their > > signed-off-b

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Benjamin Valentin wrote: > Am Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:42:05 -0700 > schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman : > > > For staging drivers I need a maintainer that is going to take the time > > to shephard it into the core kernel tree. See other TODO files for > > how that

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Anca Emanuel
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Benjamin Valentin wrote: > Am Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:42:05 -0700 > schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman : > >> For staging drivers I need a maintainer that is going to take the time >> to shephard it into the core kernel tree. See other TODO files for >> how that person is def

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-09-25 Thread Benjamin Valentin
Am Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:42:05 -0700 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman : > For staging drivers I need a maintainer that is going to take the time > to shephard it into the core kernel tree. See other TODO files for > how that person is defined. Are you going to be willing to do this? I can see what I c

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-08-30 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:46:22PM +0200, Benjamin Valentin wrote: > Samsung released their exFAT (and FAT12/16/32) driver under the GPLv2, it is > based on the in-kernel FAT driver and can be obtained from [1]. > This patch adds version 1.2.4 of the exfat driver, sans the ifdefs for older > kernel

Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

2013-08-30 Thread Vyacheslav Dubeyko
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 12:46 +0200, Benjamin Valentin wrote: > Samsung released their exFAT (and FAT12/16/32) driver under the GPLv2, it is > based on the in-kernel FAT driver and can be obtained from [1]. > This patch adds version 1.2.4 of the exfat driver, sans the ifdefs for older > kernel versio