Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: dts: add support for NXP i.MX8MP FRDM board

Rogerio Pimentel
2025-11-12T14:05:21Z

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> <snip>
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> > > We (NXP) immensely appreciate individual contributions from everyone.
> > >
> > > We need to be fair, the v1 of this patchset was taken from NXP
> > > downstream without
> > > respecting the Developer Certificate of Origin.
> >
> > No, it wasn't. Please read carefully DCO. The chain here was not
> > correct, but that's the only thing.
> >
>
> Indeed carefully reading the DCO Clause b) you are right.
>
> > >
> > > E.g there were commits pulled in from our internal tree without
> > > keeping the S-o-B tags.
> >
> > Read DCO, please. It is not mandatory to keep 3rd party SoB. It is
> > perfectly fine to skip it, if needed according to (b) of DCO certifying.
> >
>
> True. In my understanding though if one bases their work on others work
> they should at least keep the S-o-b tag as a common courtesy.
>
> Commit messages explicitly says that the work is based on NXP internal
> tree patches.
>
> At this point I leave to Rogerio's appreciation on which S-o-B flags
> to pull and how much
> of his work is based on NXP tree.
>
> Thanks a lot Rogerio and Krzysztof for helping move this forward.

Thanks Daniel, Krzysztof and Fabio for the review and discussion.
I understand and agree with Krzysztof's point, but if there are no problems,
I would like to keep all the names suggested by Daniel:

Author: Xiaofeng Wei <xiaofeng.wei@nxp.com>

Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Wei <xiaofeng.wei@nxp.com>

Co-developed-by: Joseph Guo <qijian.guo@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Guo <qijian.guo@nxp.com>

Co-developed-by: Steven Yang <steven.yang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Yang <steven.yang@nxp.com>

Co-developed-by: Lei Xu <lei.xu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Lei Xu <lei.xu@nxp.com>

Co-developed-by: Rogerio Pimentel <rpimentel.silva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rogerio Pimentel <rpimentel.silva@gmail.com>