On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 04:21:36AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> How does
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/
> change your personal opinion?
According to SFC's legal analysis, Microsoft joining the OIN doesn't
mean that the eXFAT patents are covere
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:50:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> How have you dealt with the patent claims which Microsoft has
> asserted[1] on the exFAT file system design?
>
> [1]
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx
>
> I am not making any clai
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into
> shape
> for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except
> for a number of line-too-long complaints).
>
> Do you want this tak
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into
> shape
> for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except
> for a number of line-too-long complaints).
>
> Do you want this tak
I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into shape
for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except
for a number of line-too-long complaints).
Do you want this taken straight to the fs/ tree, or through drivers/staging?
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On Tue, 09 Jul 2019 01:52:20 +0100, Al Viro said:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:37:42PM -0400, Valdis KlÄtnieks wrote:
> > I have an out-of-tree driver for the exfat file system that I beaten into
> > shape
> > for upstreaming. The driver works, and passes sparse and checkpatch (except
> > for a n
