From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:37773 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754692Ab3FKSmU (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:42:20 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id x12so845143wgg.5 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:42:14 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Samuel Ortiz , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Cousson , Tony Lindgren , Jonathan Cameron , Dmitry Torokhov , Felipe Balbi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, "Patil, Rachna" , Pantelis Antoniou Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/22] mfd/ti_am335x_tscadc: Add DT support Message-ID: <20130611184214.GB4320@laptop> References: <1370950268-7224-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1370950268-7224-11-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20130611142347.GF29135@zurbaran> <51B73756.5010004@linutronix.de> <20130611150505.GI29135@zurbaran> <51B74540.2020608@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <51B74540.2020608@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 06/11/2013 05:05 PM, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > Hi Samuel, > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >> In the end I would like not to post a patch with "From: != me" and > >> don't make change which the original author did not do. Also dropping > >> their authorship isn't nice. What could we agree on? > > You probably don't want to change authorship unless the final patch is > > really far from the original one. In which case you can change it and > > mention the original author name in the commit log. > > If you have only made a few changes on top of the original patch, please > > say so explicitely in the commit log. Don't bother if we're talking > > about small changes or cosmetic ones. But your commit log has to be > > readable and clear. > > Commit 06c9494 on of many examples where cosmetic are recorded. But to > make some progress I rewrite the commit log to resolve this and don't > add anything to the sign-off area. If you are submitting the patch, you still have to add your own SOB. -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog