linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] leds: add TI LMU backlight driver

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Message-ID: <20181024131716.GA11619@amd>
Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:17:16 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, jacek.anaszewski@...il.com,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, lee.jones@...aro.org, tony@...mide.com,
        Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] leds: add TI LMU backlight driver

On Wed 2018-10-24 07:27:57, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Pavel
> 
> On 10/24/2018 04:14 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Tue 2018-10-23 12:06:17, Dan Murphy wrote:
> >> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> >>
> >> This adds backlight support for the following TI LMU
> >> chips: LM3532, LM3631, LM3632, LM3633, LM3695 and LM3697.
> >>
> >> It controls LEDs on Droid 4
> >> smartphone, including keyboard and screen backlights.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Milo Kim <milo.kim@...com>
> >> [add LED subsystem support for keyboard backlight and rework DT
> >> binding according to Rob Herrings feedback]
> >> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk>
> >> [remove backlight subsystem support for now]
> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > 
> > This is not correct way to sign off a patch.
> > 
> > What is worse, this is very different from patch I submitted; this
> > misses imporant parts while my patch was complete.
> > 
> > I already submitted better patch for both the driver and device tree
> > bindings. Can we go back and apply that?
> > 
> > Then you can add your changes on top of that, if they actually make
> > the situation better.
> 
> Thanks for this.  I wanted to make sure not to loose any authorship or credit
> in the commit.  Actually removing Milo might help stop getting the bounce back
> from the mail daemon.
> 
> I was using the RFC patch as my base https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/978995/
> 
> Which contains this sign off.

Yeah, but you need to append your sign-off to the end, preferably
prepending note saying what you modified. [I'm ok with the original
patch, but I'm not ok with your version].

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>

Is not correct. Original patch is from Milo, if you want to add
explicit From:, I guess it should be his.

									Pavel
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