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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mzxreary@0pointer.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:59:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080607115953.5a2ec703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020806070305q33dd341wfbb36138d7b533a@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:05:23 +0300 "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:07:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Did this patch have appropriate attribution and signoffs?
> 
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > Pommed is GPLv2.
> 
> Andrew has required signoffs from all copyright holders of a patch in
> the past regardless of that.

More like "asked for".  It's best to gather those signoffs if the
people are around.

Getting the From: correct is (IMO) more important.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-07 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-07  2:54 [PATCH] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros Matthew Garrett
2008-06-07  5:04 ` Andrey Panin
2008-06-07  6:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  9:58   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-07 10:05     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-07 10:14       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-07 10:50         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-07 18:59       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-07 10:01   ` [PATCH v2] " Matthew Garrett
2008-06-07 14:45     ` Julien BLACHE
2008-06-08 18:32 ` [PATCH] " Lennart Poettering
2008-06-09  0:03   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-09  0:05   ` [PATCH v2] " Matthew Garrett
2008-06-09 20:59     ` Richard Purdie

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