linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: do the decent thing

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Message-ID: <Zx9d5Xjk3XQGuZji@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:48:21 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Edward Cree <ec429@...tab.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: do the decent thing

> Just because we can no longer work with someone does not mean we have
>  to efface their name from history.  Whether we consider them to be
>  good or bad people, I have seen no-one claiming that any of them were
>  bad *kernel maintainers*.  As an international collaboration, Linux
>  should be above national animosities, and where local laws force our
>  hand we should not go one step further than those laws require.  Are
>  we truly so small, so self-righteous?
> Oh, and dear Linus: I'm not a Russian troll.  I hate Russian military
>  expansionism (current and historic) just as much as you.  Try to use
>  *your* mush to realise that opposing the ham-handed and secretive way
>  the MAINTAINERS patch was done does not make one a supporter of
>  Russian aggression.
> 
> Sent from my personal address rather than my work account, because I
>  don't want to give my employer's lawyers any more of an aneurysm than
>  I doubtless already am.

Agreed with all of the above and:

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

for the patch.  But please fix up the damaged whitespaces before
the subsequent lines.