On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:14:42AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > 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.
That's bullshit. I've many ACKs for my patches touching arch/s390 from IBM people. Nevermding, cpint is not only doing the split wrong, it's also utter crap code. I haven't actually looked at the replacement, but I doubt it can be worse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
