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Message-ID: <3f1f28fd-2abf-2e1c-ef46-1992058b7a1a@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:49:56 -0800
From: Shiping Ji <shiping.linux@...il.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, sashal@...nel.org
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, robh+dt@...nel.org,
mark.rutland@....com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
hangl@...rosoft.com, Lei Wang <lewan@...rosoft.com>,
shji@...rosoft.com, ruizhao@...rosoft.com,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>,
Yuqing Shen <yuqing.shen@...adcom.com>, ray.jui@...adcom.com,
wangglei@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/2] EDAC: add EDAC driver for DMC520
On 1/15/2020 1:38 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 06:32:33AM -0800, Shiping Ji wrote:
>> New driver supports error detection and correction on the devices with ARM
>> DMC-520 memory controller.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shiping Ji <shiping.linux@...il.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lei Wang <leiwang_git@...look.com>
>> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
>
> This mail still has your From: because I guess you pasted the patch in
> the mail.
>
> But, if you look at what I wrote here:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200107195606.GM29542@zn.tnic
>
> you'll see the
>
> From: Lei Wang <leiwang_git@...look.com>
>
> which is the last From: in the mail and that is taken by git as the
> author of the patch.
>
> However, if I apply this mail of yours, it will make you the
> author. Because in git there can be only one author per patch
> and other authors can be additionally accredited with the
> Co-developed-by: tag from the same doc I was pointing at before:
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>
> Looking at this driver, however, you have supplied three authors. And I
> think you guys need to discuss it amongst yourselves who is going to be
> the author of this driver in the git history.
Lei will be the author of this driver in the git history. I could ask her to send the patch again if that's the correct way to go. Please confirm.
> If there are more questions, I'm pretty sure Sasha would be glad to
> explain to you how the whole authorship thing works and what the
> implications are.
Thanks, Sasha is currently OOF until April 19th.
--
Best regards,
Shiping Ji
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