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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: mourn <mourn@2600fr.org>
Cc: Mark Einon <mark@einon.net>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, rebecca@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: fix coding style
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:32:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140314233214.GA1124@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01095ac2f40e88e8736294e68c2fac05.squirrel@ssl0.ovh.net>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:13:04PM +0100, mourn wrote:
> 
> > The changes look good, however you should be a bit more specific about
> > what the
> > fixes are, and that you used checkpatch.pl to find them (I assume).
> >
> 
> Yes, you are right. I can edit the commit log.
> 
> > Also, Signed-off-by: should state your full name, which I'm also assuming
> > isn't
> > 'mourn'. Please see Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
> >
> 
> I have a bit of a problem here. Some companies forbid their employees to
> openly participate in open source projects. A request to the legal
> department will take around 6 months with no hope of positive result...

Then I can not take your patch, sorry, we can not take anonymous
patches, as the documentation that describes what you mean by adding the
"Signed-off-by:" line to a patch.

good luck with your legal department,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-13  9:44 mourn
2014-03-13 13:50 ` Mark Einon
2014-03-13 13:54   ` Mark Einon
2014-03-13 14:13     ` mourn
2014-03-14 23:32       ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-03-14 23:38 ` Greg KH
2014-09-14  0:13 [PATCH] Staging: " Sorin Facaoaru
2014-09-14  0:13 Sorin Facaoaru

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