linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm nouveau pony for Xmas.

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Message-ID: <6a89f9d50912111527y3ad430d5mce713b6ff38f9408@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:27:49 +0100
From:	Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@...il.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm nouveau pony for Xmas.

2009/12/12 Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>:
> 2009/12/12 Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marchesin@...il.com>:
> I did git log on the nouveau kernel tree nouveau dir with sort and uniq,
>
> I'm not sure where else I needed to trawl to get anymore ppl who have
> contributed to
> the KMS driver. I'm sure ppl contributed to X.org/Mesa drivers but
> this isn't the
> place for them. Also all copyright should be intact.
>

The problem is that when you moved from the drm to the linux tree, you
killed the whole history and the authors along.

> But we can add an author lists to the code subdir if you like, if
> someone compiles
> the complete list of ppl who have added code to the kernel driver.
>

That would indeed be the proper thing to do.

Stephane
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