Quoting khsieh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (2020-07-20 15:48:13) > On 2020-07-20 13:18, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > Quoting Kuogee Hsieh (2020-07-07 11:41:25) > >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_power.c | 32 +- > >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_power.h | 1 + > >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dp/dp_reg.h | 1 + > >> 17 files changed, 861 insertions(+), 424 deletions(-) > > > > It seems to spread various changes throughout the DP bits and only has > > a > > short description about what's changing. Given that the series above > > isn't merged it would be better to get rid of this change and make the > > changes in the patches that introduce these files. > > > > Yes, the base DP driver is not yet merged as its still in reviews and > has been for a while. > While it is being reviewed, different developers are working on > different aspects of DP such as base DP driver, DP compliance, audio etc > to keep things going in parallel. > To maintain the authorship of the different developers, we prefer having > them as separate changes and not merge them. > We can make all these changes as part of the same series if that shall > help to keep things together but would prefer the changes themselves to > be separate. > Please consider this and let us know if that works. > I'm not the maintainer here so it's not really up to me, but this is why we have the Co-developed-by tag, to show that multiple people worked on some patch. The patch is supposed to logically stand on its own regardless of how many people worked on it. Authorship is a single person but the Co-developed-by tag helps express that more than one person is the actual author of the patch. Can you use that tag instead and then squash this into the other DP patches?
