Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: da9063: HWMON driver

[Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:58:00 -0700, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 12:20:45AM +0000, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:42:01 -0700, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:  
> > > > +	/* set trim temperature offset to value read at startup */
> > > > +	hwmon->tjunc_offset = (signed char)hwmon->da9063->t_offset;    
> > > 
> > > Can you explain why this is read in and passed from the mfd driver
> > > and not here ?  
> > 
> > I cannot, at least not with something other than "this is how I found
> > the code", which I realise is not satisfactory.
> > I've been holding back on changes as I felt constrained by preserving
> > the original author's name on the changes (both Author and
> > Signed-off-by), but this split was indeed bothering me.
> >   
> Sorry, that is not a good argument. On the contrary, if I have to assume
> that the code has non-technical constraints, I am inclined to just reject
> it for that very reason.

These constraints are self-imposed and authorship-motivated: I do not
want to steal credit, and I do not know where the "why did you remove
my name from this ?" threshold is.

So if I am unsure whether a slightly surprising (to my untrained eyes)
but not broken piece of code is actually usual or should be changed, I
erred on the status-quo side in order to make a good-faith effort at
preserving the original author's name on the change.

So in turn, your suggestion to change the Signed-off-by into an
Originally-from removed these constraints.

Is this formulation clearer ?
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Vincent Pelletier
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