Because IBM's lawyers forbids IBM employees to "sign off" on code that they did not write. At the moment, Martin Schwidefsky of IBM is considered the architecture maintainer for mainframe Linux. This makes him the only person from which Linus and Andrew Morton will accept mainframe-related patches. Neale Ferguson, Martha McConaghy, myself, and a some IBMers have been working to try to get IBM legal to allow Martin to at least comment on patches that non-IBM employees submit. So far that has not been forthcoming. As a result, it looks like we're going to have to do an end-run around IBM legal, and submit patches to Andrew and Linus directly, while explaining why its being done. Neale was getting some feedback from some of the developers to make his version more acceptable in terms of coding style, etc., but hasn't gotten far enough along to actually submit it.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arty Ecock Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:39 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries code drop to developerWorks -snip- Why not adopt cpint and be done with it? Why re-invent the wheel? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
