Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261772AbVEVVSy (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 17:18:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261724AbVEVVSy (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 17:18:54 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:59803 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261772AbVEVVSv (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 May 2005 17:18:51 -0400 Subject: Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip From: Alan Cox To: Russell King Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20050522144123.F12146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <200505220008.j4M08uE9025378@hera.kernel.org> <1116763033.19183.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050522135943.E12146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050522144123.F12146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1116796612.5730.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 22:16:54 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1564 Lines: 39 > So, regretfully, this leaves me with the only option but to ignore > David via all forms of communication until the reason for deference > is resolved - namely the completion of OSDLs investigation. Would a few people mind growing up ? Let me make the obvious little point that nobody has it seems bothered to notice. Dwmw2 asked you to not mangle his headers. Whatever the data protection legislation covers is open to some debate but he has clearly giving you permission to include them unmangled. End of debate both in DP law and by estoppel. There is also a really simple and trivial way to deal with data protection questions in this case with complete clarity, without tantrums and without an army of lawyers - that is to follow the whole point and goal of such systems. Take the existing OSDL statement which must be attached to all submissions by reference or directly and update it to include "A public record of contributions is kept which includes the name and email address of each contributor. By contributing to the kernel project I accept that my email address provided will be part of that public record." and the problem goes away. I think this change is worth making anyway, perceived privacy is an ever growing issue of importance in our surveillance and database society worldwide. Alan - 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/