Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932350AbWHJUTe (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:19:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932375AbWHJUT1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:19:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52660 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932098AbWHJUSt (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:18:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:18:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Robert Love" Cc: "Shem Multinymous" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Pavel Machek" , "Jean Delvare" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] ThinkPad embedded controller and hdaps drivers (version 2) Message-Id: <20060810131820.23f00680.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1155203330179-git-send-email-multinymous@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 28 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:46:47 -0400 "Robert Love" wrote: > Patches look great and I am glad someone has apparently better access > to hardware specs than I did. This situation is still a concern. From where did this additional register information come? Was it reverse-engineered? If so, by whom and how can we satisfy ourselves of this? Was it from published documents? Was it improperly obtained from NDA'ed documentation? Presumably the answer to the third question will be "no", but if challenged, how can we defend this assertion? So hm. We're setting precedent here and we need Linus around to resolve this. Perhaps we can ask "Shem" to reveal his true identity to Linus (and maybe me) privately and then we proceed on that basis. The rule could be "each of the Signed-off-by:ers should know the identity of the others". - 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/