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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>
Cc: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>,
	tpctl-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Tpctl-users] Inclusion of tp_smapi module into kernel?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:21:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4921C425.7020806@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41840b750811171035w63c794aepaa273bc55fbaf2@mail.gmail.com>

Shem Multinymous wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are several utilities maintained by this author, and finding
>> some way to merge the code has been tried more than once. If you look
>> back far enough, Andrew asked to have another of the project's members
>> sign off on the patch, and maybe that would be acceptable enough, but
>> afaik the author has never responded directly to that idea.
> 
> We've discussed that in private at the time, and recently on LKML too.
> In summary:
> I'm fine with that, and so is everybody I talked to (including Linus),
> except Greg KH who vetoed it since he believes the code is irrevocably
> and contagiously evil.
> 

Signed-off-by is about copyright, it's not a review issue.  It means "I 
certify that I know that the author had the rights to submit this code." 
   Code quality is important but separate.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17 13:55 Inclusion of tp_smapi module into kernel? Hanno Böck
2008-11-17 16:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 17:13   ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-17 18:35     ` [Tpctl-users] " Shem Multinymous
2008-11-17 18:49       ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-17 19:21       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-11-17 20:27         ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-23 12:30           ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-17 20:35         ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-18 13:48           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-11-18 17:13             ` Pavel Machek

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