Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261831AbVEVQ5n (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 12:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261833AbVEVQ5m (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 12:57:42 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26010 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261831AbVEVQ5k (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 12:57:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 09:59:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Woodhouse cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip In-Reply-To: <1116763033.19183.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <200505220008.j4M08uE9025378@hera.kernel.org> <1116763033.19183.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1553 Lines: 35 On Sun, 22 May 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Linus, please do not apply patches from me which have my personal > information mangled or removed. I've asked Russell not to do it, but the fact is, he's worried about legal issues, and while I've also tried to resolve those (by having the OSDL lawyer try to contact some lawyers in the UK), that hasn't been clarified yet. So either rmk needs to stop worrying about UK legal issues (the law itself sounds fine, but the stupidity is in potential interpretations of it, and I'm hoping we can get a statement saying that such an interpretation is not actually valid), or rmk would need to special-case you and others that explicitly ask him not to mangle sign-offs. Now, having myself aggressively automated a lot of what I do just to be able to keep up, I have to admit that I understand rmk's objections to special-casing certain email addresses very well. It tends to just not be worth the pain. So for now, it looks like we either have to make sure that rmk is comfortable with not editing sign-off's (working on it, but I can't guarantee anything), or that you're ok with getting the email stripped, _or_ you will end up having to send patches directly to me rather than to rmk (and face the chaos and bumbling that is Linus). Linus - 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/