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Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 8:31 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 05:21:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:45:28PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > This patch series port the out-of-tree driver for Hikey 970 (which > > > should also support Hikey 960) from the official 96boards tree: > > > > > > https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/tree/hikey970-v4.9 > > > > > > Based on his history, this driver seems to be originally written > > > for Kernel 4.4, and was later ported to Kernel 4.9. The original > > > driver used to depend on ION (from Kernel 4.4) and had its own > > > implementation for FB dev API. > > > > > > As I need to preserve the original history (with has patches from > > > both HiSilicon and from Linaro), I'm starting from the original > > > patch applied there. The remaining patches are incremental, > > > and port this driver to work with upstream Kernel. > > > ... > > > - Due to legal reasons, I need to preserve the authorship of > > > each one responsbile for each patch. So, I need to start from > > > the original patch from Kernel 4.4; ... > > I do acknowledge you need to preserve history and all - > > but this patchset is not easy to review. > > Why do we need to preserve history ? Adding relevant Signed-off-by and > Co-developed-by should be enough, shouldn't it ? Having a public branch > that contains the history is useful if anyone is interested, but I don't > think it's required in mainline. Yea. I concur with Laurent here. I'm not sure what legal reasoning you have on this but preserving the "absolute" history here is actively detrimental for review and understanding of the patch set. Preserving Authorship, Signed-off-by lines and adding Co-developed-by lines should be sufficient to provide both atribution credit and DCO history. thanks -john _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel