linux-kernel - Re: Samsung Backlight Patch

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Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:42:17 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Mike Lothian <mike@...eburn.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthias Hopf <mhopf@...e.de>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: Samsung Backlight Patch

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 <greg@...ah.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 :(
> ...
> > > It definitely has +MODULE_AUTHOR("Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@...e.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@...e.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...
> 
> 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
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