From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754612Ab3IYSpl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:45:41 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48421 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783Ab3IYSpl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:45:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:45:39 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Benjamin Valentin , STAGING SUBSYSTEM , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver Message-ID: <20130925184539.GA4208@kroah.com> References: <20130830124622.5f81b7d4@rechenknecht2k7> <20130830154205.GA1411@kroah.com> <20130925183632.08a0d073@rechenknecht2k7> <20130925172704.GB5258@kroah.com> <20130925183235.GA9659@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130925183235.GA9659@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Who did you contact at Samsung? I'll be visiting there in a week so I > > can try to track some people done in person. I really want their > > signed-off-by: on the patch, as it is their code to start with, and it's > > a bit rude to not get their approval for the code to be merged. > > It's arguably rude, but it's fine under the certificate of origin. Oh, I totally agree, just trying to be nice here. If a company objects to having their code included in the tree, we should always take that into consideration, especially given the ability for others to maintain it. We've done this for years, nothing new here at all. thanks, greg k-h