linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for variant WCN6855 by using different nvm

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Date:   Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:09:20 +0800
From:   tjiang@...eaurora.org
To:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        MSM <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Balakrishna Godavarthi <bgodavar@...eaurora.org>,
        c-hbandi@...eaurora.org, Hemantg <hemantg@...eaurora.org>,
        Rocky Liao <rjliao@...eaurora.org>, zijuhu@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for variant WCN6855 by
 using different nvm

Thanks Marcel for the reply, I will do as what you said , thank you.

regards.
tim


On 2021-10-28 22:00, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
>>>  the previous patch is submitted by zijun , as he is not working on 
>>> this
>>> project, I take over his job, so can we assume abandon the previous 
>>> patch,
>>> using my new patch ? thank you.
>>> regards.
>> 
>> Your patch is clearly based on zijun's one, it even has the same 
>> subject. A
>> change of authorship shouldn't result in resetting the version number, 
>> it's
>> still the same patch/series. You can always add a 'Co-developed-by:' 
>> tag to
>> indicate that someone else contributed to a patch, or use a 'From:' 
>> tag if
>> you only made minor changes on top of someone else's work.
> 
> I really don’t care much since that is for them and their company
> policy to figure out.
> 
>> Not sure how to proceed best with the version number, especially since 
>> there
>> are already 3 versions of the 'new' patch. Either option can create 
>> confusion,
>> I guess you can continue with the new scheme, it seems the patch is 
>> almost
>> ready to land anyway.
> 
> It is a total mess already for a dead simple patch like this. And they
> keep messing it up differently every time.
> 
> I provided a btusb_generate_qca_nvm_name() in one of my replies, where
> the variant variable was declared without NULL assignment and the
> ram_version was converted from little endian in place. That was 28th
> of September and 4 patches later the patch is still not ready to be
> merged. The maintainer hands you the recipe and you still screw up the
> cake multiple times; I am just done with this.
> 
> The next version would be a v16 btw. So seriously, how can we have 15
> revisions so far and still not have this in a mergable state?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel