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From: Mike Lothian <mike@fireburn.co.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: Samsung Backlight Patch
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:31:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3f71ab90910071431g524fa807ib67f5fcfef7c70d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091007211916.GA4217@kroah.com>

2009/10/7 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> 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 :(
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

It definitely has +MODULE_AUTHOR("Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@suse.de>"); at the bottom

I certainly wasn't trying to steal credit for your work

Who should sign it off?

I think there's a few other models that can be added to this patch too

Regards

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 21:14 Mike Lothian
2009-10-07 21:19 ` Greg KH
2009-10-07 21:31   ` Mike Lothian [this message]
2009-10-07 22:58     ` Greg KH
2009-10-07 23:31       ` Mike Lothian
2009-10-07 23:36         ` Greg KH
2009-10-07 23:52           ` Mike Lothian
2009-10-08  2:50             ` Greg KH
2009-10-11  9:04       ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-11 14:42         ` Greg KH

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