linux-kernel - Inclusion of tp_smapi module into kernel?

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Message-Id: <200811171455.50039.hanno@hboeck.de>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:55:49 +0100
From:	Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tpctl-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Inclusion of tp_smapi module into kernel?

Hi,

For thinkpad users, there is the tp_smapi module (along with thinkpad_ec and 
an improved hdaps driver):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpctl

I wanted to ask if there is some status on possible kernel inclusion. On
http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers
I read
"will not be accepted upstream due to authorship issues (written by an 
anonymous developer)"

Now I can see copyright notices in all source files, though they may be 
incomplete. But anyway, would this be a real problem?
Is there any rule that kernel code needs a named author? As long as it has a 
fitting license, shouldn't this be fine?

(tp_smapi and thinkpad_ec are gpl2 or later, hdaps is gpl2, so this should be 
just fine)

cu,

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