Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: add driver for Texas Instruments TLA2528 adc

Andy Shevchenko
2025-12-27T14:43:20Z

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 11:33:02AM -0600, David Lechner wrote:
> On 12/23/25 11:12 AM, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > On 23/12/2025 16:55, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> >> This adds a new driver for the TI TLA2528 ADC chip. It ha 8 12-bit
> >> channels, that can also be configured as 16-bit averaging channels.
> >>
> >> Add a very simple driver for it, allowing reading raw values for each
> >> channel.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
> >
> > Looking closer at this, Rodolfo hasn't seen this patch prior to me
> > sending it, so it should rather be :
> >
> > Orginally-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
>
> I think the usual way would be to keep the Signed-off-by: and add
> Co-developed-by:.
>
> See https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by

Hmm... I think the Originally-by is used when the contributor gave
a PoC / basic idea in a form of code that was (heavily?) rewritten.

The only documentation mentions this tag is
Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko