On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 12:03 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 2021-06-05 00:00, schrieb Linus Walleij: > > >> Btw, I'm not sure how to handle this "was part of another patch by > >> another > >> author" thing. Should I leave the Sob and just add mine? > > > > Ideally just stack Sign-offs it is called the "delivery path". > > Even if it is just a subset of the original patch? Yeah it's just an indication of whose hands typed thes characters. Something with copyright law actually, nothing to do with actual attribution. See (11) here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html Author: should reflect the person who wrote the majority of the code however. Yours, Linus Walleij