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@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Lei Wang <leiwang_git@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> > > 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@xxxxxxx > > you'll see the > > From: Lei Wang <leiwang_git@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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
