Re: Samsung Backlight Patch

[Mike Lothian <mike@fireburn.co.uk>]

2009/10/7 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:31:44PM +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> 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
>
> I mean on the patch, when submitting it, you need a:
>        From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> 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...
>
>> I think there's a few other models that can be added to this patch too
>
> I do too.
>
> Note, if you look at the git tree I have for the driver, it is totally
> rewritten to not use a structure, and instead, use offsets properly.
> But it removed support for your laptop, which is not what you probably
> want :(
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

What git tree?