linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH] PM: Update device power management document

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Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:38:55 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH] PM: Update device power management document

On Thursday 18 March 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> Rafael:
> 
> Here's my updated version of your patch.  It's meant as a replacement,
> rather than an additional patch.  I used much of your text but I also
> altered a lot.  And the new documentation describes the way things will
> be after Dominik Brodowski's change is added, rather than the way
> things are now.

Thanks!

I agree with all of the changes you made.

> Attribution of authorship for changes like this is difficult; the 
> existing conventions don't make allowance for patches with multiple 
> authors.  You'll have to figure out the right way to handle it.

I think I'll covert your version into a patch on top of mine for this purpose.

That's a bit artificial, but it will reflect who did what correctly, which also
is important (and the Randy's "Reviewed-by" for my patch will be preserved this
way).

Rafael
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