[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/9] sunxi: generic sun7i build infrastructure.

Ian Campbell
2014-03-22T10:04:10Z

On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 07:46 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Ian Campbell,
>
> In message <1395438866-1193-5-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> you wrote:
> > This has been stripped back for mainlining and supports only sun7i booting via
> > FEL mode. These changes are not useful by themselves but are split out to make
> > the patch sizes more manageable.
> >
> > As well as the following signed-off-by the sunxi branch shows commits to these
> > files authored by the following:
>
> What does that mean? I cannot find these names in the SoB lines?

I explained the process by which I arrived at these lists in 0/9. It
means that they appear as an author for a commit in the history in the
u-boot-sunxi.git, but did not supply an S-o-b. However I am adding my
own S-o-b under clause (b) of the DCO, which I believe applies here.

It's entirely possible that none of these peoples' contributions still
remain in the files being upstreamed, but figuring that out for sure
would be a large and manual task. As I explained in 0/9 I prefer to
over-credit by mentioning people whose actual contributions no longer
remain rather than fail to credit someone whose contribution does
remain. Even if their code doesn't remain it could be argued that they
contributed to the evolution of the code. I didn't really want to get
into the whole question of whether any individual contribution was
sufficient to deserve credit or substantive enough to endow a copyright
claim etc.

(git blame does not help here BTW, it will just tell you the last person
to touch a line, not whether that change was substantive from a
copyright PoV etc)

> > Almo Nito
> > Carl van Schaik
> > FUKAUMI Naoki
> > hehopmajieh
> > j
>
> And these are not actually names ... nor do we have the e-mail
> addresses...

I have email addresses from the commit authorship, which I should indeed
have included here, I shall definitely do that for v3. Please let me
know whether or not I should also spend hours trawling down the precise
pedigree of each line of code.

Ian.