From: Pavel M. <pa...@su...> - 2008-11-18 17:46:23
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> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Shem Multinymous wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, J.R. Mauro <jr...@gm...> 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. > > > > We've discussed this issue on the internal suse mailing lists, and > > concluded that the solution is simple: someone from IBM, Lenovo or > > whoever they license the technology from should sign off on the code. > > That would be nice, yes. > > > But implementing this got stuck at some stage. > > > > Can anybody help with info about who's responsible for this part of > > the ThinkPad? > > SuSE has direct management-level and engineering-level contacts with the > Lenovo team responsible for the ThinkPad. IMO, the contact needs to be done > through those channels (which are Linux-friendly). > > If SuSE decided not to do it, they must have had their reasons. I wouldn't > know them, but I can guess as much as anyone else, and my pet guess is that > they are waiting for an opportune time. SuSE asked, Lenovo said no. We can probably try again... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html |