Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753722AbZJKPQB (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:16:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752946AbZJKPP7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:15:59 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:43147 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752394AbZJKPP7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:15:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:42:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek Cc: Mike Lothian , linux-kernel , Matthias Hopf , Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Samsung Backlight Patch Message-ID: <20091011144217.GA9975@kroah.com> References: <20091007211916.GA4217@kroah.com> <20091007225828.GA7892@kroah.com> <20091011090403.GA1414@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091011090403.GA1414@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 50 On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2009-10-07 15:58:28, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:31:44PM +0100, Mike Lothian wrote: > > > 2009/10/7 Greg KH : > > > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:14:37PM +0100, Mike Lothian wrote: > > > >> Hi > > > >> > > > >> I was hoping the following patch could be included in 2.6.32 so it > > > >> would hopefully end up in the next round of distros > > > >> > > > >> It adds backlight support for some Samsung laptops > > > > > > > > You seem to have lost the original authorship of this patch, and not > > > > included your signed-off-by for it. > > > > > > > > Which means it can't be applied :( > ... > > > It definitely has +MODULE_AUTHOR("Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > "); at the bottom > > > > > > I certainly wasn't trying to steal credit for your work > > > > I mean on the patch, when submitting it, you need a: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > as the first line. > > > > > Who should sign it off? > > > > As I stated before, I can not sign off on this patch anymore, but I > > would like my authorship to remain. Someone needs to sign off on it... > > That's quite crazy, no? Yes it is. > DCO, a). You say you created the patch. Do you want to say you did > not have right to submit it? Or do you want to say it is not under > GPL? > > What is going on? I can not say, sorry. greg k-h -- 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/