Hi, On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Jernej Škrabec wrote: > Hi! > > Let me first explain that it was oversight on my side not noticing initials in > your SoB tag. But since the issue was raised by Maxime, I didn't follow up. > > Dne sobota, 13. februar 2021 ob 07:51:32 CET je B.R. Oake napisal(a): > > On Wed Feb 10 at 16:01:18 CET 2021, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > Unfortunately we can't take this patch as is, this needs to be your real > > > name, see: > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#de > > > veloper-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1 > > Dear Maxime, > > > > Thank you very much for considering my contribution and for all your > > work on supporting sunxi-based hardware; I appreciate it. > > > > Thank you for referring me to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, but > > I had already read it before submitting (I had to do so in order to know > > what I was saying by "Signed-off-by:") and I do certify what it says. > > > > Looking through recent entries in the commit log of the mainline kernel, > > I see several patches from authors such as: > > > > H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> > > B K Karthik <karthik.bk2000@xxxxxxxx> > > JC Kuo <jckuo@xxxxxxxxxx> > > EJ Hsu <ejh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > LH Lin <lh.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Karthik B S <karthik.b.s@xxxxxxxxx> > > Shreyas NC <shreyas.nc@xxxxxxxxx> > > Vandana BN <bnvandana@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > so I believe names of this form are in fact acceptable, even if the > > style might seem a little old-fashioned to some. > > Speaking generally, not only for this case, prior art arguments rarely hold, > because: > - it might be oversight, > - it might be a bad practice, which should not be followed in new > contributions, > - different maintainers have different point of view on same thing, > - maintainer wants to adapt new practice or steer subsystem in new direction > > > > > I would like to add that I have met many people with names such as C.J., > > A A, TC, MG, etc. That is what everybody calls them and it would be > > natural for them to sign themselves that way. Some of them might want to > > contribute to Linux some day, and I think it would be a great shame and > > a loss to all of us if they were discouraged from doing so by reading > > our conversation in the archives and concluding that any contribution > > from them, however small, would be summarily refused simply because of > > their name. Please could you ensure that does not happen? > > The link you posted says following: > "using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)" > > I believe that real name means no initials, no matter what people are > accustomed to. From my point of view, CJ is pseudonym derived from real name. > > This is not the first time that fix of SoB tag was requested, you can find such > requests in ML archives. Any chance this could be resolved? In downstream (here Debian) we would be interested to have the patch applied due to https://bugs.debian.org/988574 reported by Vagrant Cascadian. Regards, Salvatore
