IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time”

Re:IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% o... by karatinversion on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:15AM (#26874157)

The article isn't 100% clear on this, but I got the impression this was the upstream driver for an IBM product (VNIC) that the guy worked on as part of his job, but listed his gmail address in the maintainers file... In which case, fair enough.

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Re:IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% o... by bombcar on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:38AM (#26874466)

My current kernel sources have:

   IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver
   M:      Dany Madden <[email protected]>
   M:      Lijun Pan <[email protected]>
   M:      Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
   L:      [email protected]
   S:      Supported
   F:      drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.*

And so it looks like Lijun was asked to remove himself from the project (perhaps because he was reassigned at work or who knows why) and instead put himself with a gmail account, and then that was noticed and 'nice tried'.

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Re:IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% o... by airhead969 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:23AM (#26874272)

Hmm, that might be valid. Maybe he should ask to have it prioritized at work to contribute officially to avoid any corporate PHB conflicts?

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Re:IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% o... by Jiejeing on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:21AM (#26874238)

If they work on it as part of their job, then sure (although I find the tone of the email very unprofessional). But it would have made more sense to update the file with a linux.ibm.com address like the other maintainers, rather than delete it.

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