From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Laptop shock detection and harddisk protection Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:29:28 -0700 Message-ID: <48CE1CE8.502@kernel.org> References: <48C7FCEE.8060404@kernel.org> <41840b750809110908o54a61f55w7b1b9793abf55634@mail.gmail.com> <48C948A6.3080404@kernel.org> <41840b750809111325t30f8ffe2sa4572d401d43dc5a@mail.gmail.com> <48C9AB5A.705@kernel.org> <20080912165947.GB5094@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42688 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbYIOIbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:31:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080912165947.GB5094@kroah.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Shem Multinymous , Elias Oltmanns , Thomas Renninger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , IDE/ATA development list Greg KH wrote: >>>> On a related note, is there any plan to merge tp_smapi to mainline? >>>> It seems you put a lot of work into it and I don't really see why it >>>> should stay out of tree. >>> The only issue I'm aware of is finding a reasonably-named maintainer. >>> On the technical side, the reviews on my lkml submission of >>> thinkpad_ec+hdaps seemed good and all technical comments are since >>> addressed. The code has been stable, well-tested and packaged by major >>> distros for years. >> Cool, can you please post the patch to the lkml and cc Greg >> Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton >> and me? > > Sorry, but no, I can't accept this code as it is coming from a "known > anonymous" person containing information that it is not known where it > came from. > > We went over this before a number of years ago, that's why this code > isn't in mainline :( Aieee... didn't know that and was wondering why the hell this wasn't in mainline. :-( > In short, "Signed-off-by:" from people who are known to be anonymous is > not allowed. Shem Multinymous, I suppose nothing really has changd since the last time? Thanks. -- tejun