On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 06/11/2013 05:05 PM, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > Hi Samuel, > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >> In the end I would like not to post a patch with "From: != me" and > >> don't make change which the original author did not do. Also dropping > >> their authorship isn't nice. What could we agree on? > > You probably don't want to change authorship unless the final patch is > > really far from the original one. In which case you can change it and > > mention the original author name in the commit log. > > If you have only made a few changes on top of the original patch, please > > say so explicitely in the commit log. Don't bother if we're talking > > about small changes or cosmetic ones. But your commit log has to be > > readable and clear. > > Commit 06c9494 on of many examples where cosmetic are recorded. But to > make some progress I rewrite the commit log to resolve this and don't > add anything to the sign-off area. If you are submitting the patch, you still have to add your own SOB. -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html