Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:29:28 -0700 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: Laptop shock detection and harddisk protection | |
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 <gregkh@suse.de>, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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.
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tejun
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