On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 10:04 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 09:53 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 14:54 -0800, steven chen wrote: > [... > > > Author: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Steven, thank you again for picking up this patch set. > > > > As previously explained, there is no tag named "Author" in > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > > . To give credit to the original author use "Co-developed-by". > > Just on this, only use the co-developed-by if you actually *modified* > the patch. If you're just transmitting the patch unmodified you can > give original author credit by including a > > From: original author <email> > > Followed by a blank line at the beginning of the email. That makes the > git author field contan whatever the From: line says. You still need a > signoff from yourself in the original patch because you transmitted it. > > Some people also consider minor modifications to be insufficient to > disturb the original copyright ownership and simply document what they > did in square brackets under their signoff, like this: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5d1e6ee761a109400e97ac6a1b91c57d0f6a43a Originally I had said: > Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: steven chen <chenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Before the "Co-developed-by" tag was defined, it was implied simply by this ordering of the "Signed-off-by" tags. For those patches you didn't modify, simply import Tushar's patch with him as the author and add your Signed-off-by tag after his. Thanks, James, for the explanation of using "From: original author <email>" to force the author to be Tushar. Mimi
