On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 09:36 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > Who is "Rab" and why do you need to name who added what id to the > patch? > I copied that part from the web page I referenced in the commit message. It's evidently a reference to the page's author. I tried to send an e-mail to the address at the bottom of the page, with no response. I also CC'ed from git send-email. > > What is more useful is a description of the device types, not who > added > the new id, can you do that instead? For the "Rab" devices, there is a wealth of such information on the aforementioned web page. I added the info for the ones I have into the commit message. > It doesn't say that Fabio added this one below, are you sure? It says that in the commit that added it: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git/commit/drivers/usb/misc/uss720.c?id=ecc1624a2fff45780959efbcb73ace18fdb3c58d > Always use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to figure out who to cc: on the > patches, otherwise the maintainer might miss it :( Hmm, I simply looked in the MAINTAINERS file instead, which has no entry for this driver. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html