RE: [PATCH 16/22] xlink-ipc: Add xlink ipc driver

From: Gross, Mark
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 12:14:32 EST




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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/22] xlink-ipc: Add xlink ipc driver
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:33:02AM +0000, Kelly, Seamus wrote:
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Must be something Seamus is using that knows when emails go outside. I would have caught this on our internal mock reviews otherwise.

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> Now deleted!
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> This footer is incompatible with Linux kernel development, please remove it in
> order for us to read your emails and do anything with them.
Yes, I know.

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> I can't believe that Intel still has this problem, after all of these years...
I'll add a warning about this in my training collateral and have all engineers I work with on this type of upstreaming send a test email to markgross@xxxxxxxxxx so I can see if they have such legal clauses appended to out-bound email that is not visible to internal recipients. I'll fix this.

Sorry,

--mark