Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750749AbWHFWl3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750750AbWHFWl3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:41:29 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:63645 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbWHFWl2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:41:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I3PC79V+kzqtXIqchjIRjSoJx6LJcj6ukZnbmInPO2DAEicyvmdtcZPGW4/2YtlB3QMpB5EP3jvZ1DUzNpRcUhbg2nq+FvZADeVsPPNEcukDVKKiVCfcPCgj5s9HDOnhd6sM1OTVCJ8kf/hHWmIO4iAqIWaW07gQxZpIyn31bCk= Message-ID: <41840b750608061541r2a6eb9e1uab5474c3899e2283@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:41:27 +0300 From: "Shem Multinymous" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] thinkpad_ec: New driver for ThinkPad embedded controller access Cc: "Andrew Morton" , rlove@rlove.org, khali@linux-fr.org, gregkh@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1154890406.3054.127.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <11548492171301-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <11548492242899-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> <20060806005613.01c5a56a.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060256g1a7bb9c3s843d3ac08e512d63@mail.gmail.com> <20060806030749.ab49c887.akpm@osdl.org> <41840b750608060344p59293ce0xc75edfbd791b23c@mail.gmail.com> <1154890406.3054.127.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 33 Hi Arjan, On 8/6/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Open source is all about trust. Person A takes a patch from person B > because person A has trust in B (conditional on the patch meeting a > technical standard). In B's technical ability, in B's intentions, in B's > sincerity, in B's honesty when he says "this is my work and you can use > it because nobody but me has a claim on this". Excellent points. > Using a fake name is not a good way to gain such trust... At all. > Explicitly refusing to say who you really are just lowers the trust even > more, because it gives a strong appearance that something really fishy > is going on. Agreed. But this is only a heuristic; maybe in this case nothing fishy is going on, whereas many nice-looking patches would reek to heaven if inspected more closely. So how about exercising judgment? Look up the tp_smapi development history on sf.net (under project "tpctl"), the relevant posts on thinkpad-devel, hdaps-devel and even a bit on lkml, and see if this looks like standard, clean kernel development or a sinister attempt to steal our precious bolidy fluids. Shem - 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/