linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:45:39 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Valentin <benpicco@...at.fu-berlin.de>,
	STAGING SUBSYSTEM <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Who did you contact at Samsung?  I'll be visiting there in a week so I
> > can try to track some people done in person.  I really want their
> > signed-off-by: on the patch, as it is their code to start with, and it's
> > a bit rude to not get their approval for the code to be merged.
> 
> It's arguably rude, but it's fine under the certificate of origin.

Oh, I totally agree, just trying to be nice here.  If a company objects
to having their code included in the tree, we should always take that
into consideration, especially given the ability for others to maintain
it.  We've done this for years, nothing new here at all.

thanks,

greg k-h
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