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