[U-Boot] Rejected: PATCH Nios2 kernel bootstrap error due to missing processor data cache flush: fix

Wolfgang Wegner
2009-07-22T10:33:58Z

Dear Wolfgang,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:56:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
[...]
> If you don't do that, then either somebody else will clean up your
> patch and commit it and earn the credits for your work, or nobody will
> care and the problem remains, which means your work was basicly
> wasted.

that was why I wrote now, because it seemed to me that the latter
might happen in the current case. But maybe I misunderstood Renatos
intention here.

[...]
> Um... and instead of maintaining several private source trees you
> should consider poushing your code upstream, so that others do the
> maintenance for you.

The intention is to do so with my next project at work - but again it
depends on how much time is left after sorting out all the low-level
hard- and software bugs.

> You get the credit by being the author of the commit, and by your
> Signed-off-by: line in it. "git log" will show it, "git blame" will
> show it, and you will find your place in the U-Boot statistics page,
> too. You do not have any entitlement on a (C) Copyright entry in a
> bigger source file if you change just a few lines in it. That's not
> reasonable.

Thanks for clearing this up.

Best regards,
Wolfgang