On 11/1/10, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 03:36:13PM -0400, Tracey Dent wrote: >> On 11/1/10, Charles Manning <manningc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 02 November 2010 08:24:42 David Daney wrote: >> >> On 11/01/2010 12:14 PM, Charles Manning wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 02 November 2010 07:55:39 David Daney wrote: >> >> >> On 11/01/2010 11:40 AM, Tracey Dent wrote: >> >> >>> The patch sets puts the yaffs2 filesystem in the staging directory. >> >> >>> It is all based on Charles git >> >> >>> tree(http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/). >> >> >>> Everything >> >> >>> is compile tested and it builds. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> This only the inital support and I will be sending more cleanup >> >> >>> patches. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Greg can you add the patch set into your staging-next tree. >> >> >>> Also, It doesn't affect anything other than itself. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Thanks, >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Tracey Dent >> >> >> >> >> >> I am confused. >> >> >> >> >> >> Are you and Charles Manning working together on this? >> >> >> >> >> >> Did you write all this code or did Charles? If it was Charles, why >> >> >> are >> >> >> there no From: and Signed-off-by headers for him? >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for enlightening us as to what is going on here, >> >> >> David Daney >> >> > >> >> > We are not working together on this, but I do appreciate the effort >> >> > in >> >> > helping bring to a head what people like/dislike. >> >> > >> >> > I am trying to keep the kernel yaffs consistent with the yaffs.net >> >> > yaffs >> >> > so that it is easier to add changes from yaffs.net. >> >> >> >> Great. Thanks for clearing things up. >> >> >> >> I will offer my unsolicited opinion: >> >> >> >> Charles has obviously expended great effort on yaffs2. He has a git >> >> repository hosting the code, and has expressed a desire to get the code >> >> fit for merging. For Tracey Dent to come along and hijack the entire >> >> effort, would anger me if I were in Charles' place. >> > >> > I don't see any malicious intent from Tracey, but I do wish to see some >> > recognition for 8+ years of effort :-). >> > >> >> I can resend it with your signed-off-by line instead of mine. > > You need to properly credit _who_ did the code in the first place. And > your patches did not do that at all, which is very bad, and rude, and > something that we care deeply about. > > Please read the file, Documentation/SubmittingPatches for how to > properly attribute the author of the patch when you send it out. > > I'm not going to take this as-is because of this problem, and neither > will any other maintainer. Someone can resend it with the proper author > and signed-off-by stuff and I'll be glad to look at it again then. > Sorry for not giving credit. I will resend following patch set with proper credits. > thanks, > > greg k-h Sorry, Tracey Dent -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
