Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] genirq: Add an accessor for IRQ_PER_CPU flag

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 11/20/13 22:10, Vinayak Kale wrote:
> [removing chris.smith@st.com]
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Vinayak Kale <vkale@apm.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>> On 11/20/13 03:13, Vinayak Kale wrote:
>>>> This patch adds an accessor function for IRQ_PER_CPU flag.
>>>> The accessor function is useful to dertermine whether an IRQ is percpu or not.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale@apm.com>
>>>> ---
>>> This looks like a copy of Chris Smith's patch. Shouldn't Chris be the
>>> author and the commit text be whatever Chris sent?
>> In the cover letter of this patch series I did mention about Chris's
>> earlier patch. I didn't know his email-id earlier, have found the
>> mail-id now. CCing the mail-id to check whether it's still valid.
>>
> Chris's mail-id doesn't seem to be valid, the earlier mail to his
> mail-id [chris.smith@st.com] bounced.
> Please let me know in such case how to mention original author's credits.

It's up to the maintainer accepting the patch. If I was picking up the
patch I would say it doesn't really matter if the mail-id is valid
anymore. Leave the original patch intact and just add your sign-off. If
you took the patch and significantly changed it it's good to put
"Based-on-a-patch-by:" and then take over authorship.

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