Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755132Ab3IYT3o (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:29:44 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:47612 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752007Ab3IYT3l (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:29:41 -0400 Message-ID: <52433978.9050302@ahsoftware.de> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:28:56 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130712 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Matthew Garrett , Benjamin Valentin , STAGING SUBSYSTEM , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver References: <20130830124622.5f81b7d4@rechenknecht2k7> <20130830154205.GA1411@kroah.com> <20130925183632.08a0d073@rechenknecht2k7> <20130925172704.GB5258@kroah.com> <20130925183235.GA9659@srcf.ucam.org> <20130925184539.GA4208@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130925184539.GA4208@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 29 Am 25.09.2013 20:45, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > 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. Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned patents which might drive Linux users into the hand of MS lawyers as already happened with FAT? It would make me wonder if not. Maybe you could ask Samsung about that too, when you are there. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/