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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:35:54 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:23:22PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> > 
> > Just a clarification question: how is one to understand this attribution
> > here? Is Stefan the original author, was he a reviewer, or? Because this
> > SOB chain is misleading...
> 
> He was the first then Juergen took over. Should the SOB order be inversed?

Well, I'd say:

Originally-by: Stefan...

or

Based-on-patch-by: Stefan...

or something like that. For more inspiration, one could do something
like that:

$ git log | grep -Eio "original.*by:" | sort | uniq
original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:
Original-by:
original by or fixed by:
Original-code-by:
Original-coded-by:
original driver was written by:
Original i2c code by:
Original-Idea-and-Signed-off-by:
Original idea by:
Original-idea-by:
originally by:
Originally by:
Originally-by:
originally made by:
Originally reported by:
Originally-Reported-by:
originally submitted by:
originally written by:
Original partial fix Signed-off-by:
original patch authored by:
original patch by:
original-patch-by:
Original patch by:
Original-patch-by:
Original-Patch-By:
Original patches by:
original-screenplay-by:
Original-Signed-off-by:
Original-version-by:
original work completed by:

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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