Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751189AbWBRM3O (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:29:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751196AbWBRM3O (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:29:14 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:19106 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbWBRM3N (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:29:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:29:10 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Roland Dreier , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. Message-ID: <20060218122910.GA1521@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Roland Dreier , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com References: <20060218005532.13620.79663.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218005707.13620.20538.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218015808.GB17653@kroah.com> <20060218122011.GE911@infradead.org> <20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1016 Lines: 18 On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:26:31PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > I don't speak for IBM or the authors, but there are perfectly > reasonable reasons to ask someone else to post a patch on your behalf > - including but not limited to to only being able to use Lotus Notes > with one's IBM email. I'm sure you've all seen the travesties that > Notes inflicts on inline patches. sure. and there's free webmail accounts that take about 10 minutes to setup as well as various people offering shell access to linux machines if you ask nicely. so this really is not an issue. I think this is more about ibm politics (espeically in boeblingen) sometimes making it pretty hard to post things. But that doesn't mean it's impossible, it just means they didn't try hard enough. - 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/