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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,
by karatinversion 5y ago
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.
- Jiejeing 5y agoIf 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.
- airhead969 5y agoHmm, that might be valid. Maybe he should ask to have it prioritized at work to contribute officially to avoid any corporate PHB conflicts?
- bombcar 5y agoMy current kernel sources have: IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver M: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com> M: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com> M: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com> L: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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'.