linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] spi: Add a driver for the Freescale/NXP QuadSPI controller

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Date:   Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:14:52 +0200
From:   Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@...eet.de>
To:     Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@....com>
Cc:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        "linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-spi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        "computersforpeace@...il.com" <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        "marek.vasut@...il.com" <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        "richard@....at" <richard@....at>,
        "miquel.raynal@...tlin.com" <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        "broonie@...nel.org" <broonie@...nel.org>,
        David Wolfe <david.wolfe@....com>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha@....com>,
        Han Xu <han.xu@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] spi: Add a driver for the Freescale/NXP QuadSPI
 controller

Hi Yogesh,

On 30.05.2018 16:24, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Yogesh,
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2018 13:50:51 +0000
> Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@....com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frieder,
>>
>> Thanks for migrating the fsl-quadspi.c driver on the new SPI
>> framework. This patch is using dynamic LUT approach to create the LUT
>> at run time instead of fixed static LUT as being used in current
>> driver present at mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c. I have pushed the
>> changes for dynamic LUT on mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c and v10 has been
>> in review stage.
>>
>> Request you to please add 'signed-off' mentioned in those patches in
>> this patch, patchwork link is
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/896534/

So for reasons already given by Boris, I won't add your S-o-b tags. But 
I can add your name (and that of Suresh Gupta?) to the file header and 
as MODULE_AUTHOR in the next version.

Regards,

Frieder

> 
> First, I'd like to state that this work has not been based on your
> dynamic LUT code, and I actually asked you to adapt your code to match
> the way we were handling it in the new driver (which at that time was
> still under development). Then, even if you want to be cited as one of
> the author of the new code, SoB tag is not the right way to do it (see
> [1] for an explanation on when SoB should be added). Instead, you
> should add your name in the copyright header and maybe be add a
> MODULE_AUTHOR():
> 
> /*
>   * Copyright ...
>   * ...
>   * Authors:
>   *	...
>   *	Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@....com>
>   */
> 
> ...
> 
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@....com>");
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L429
>