On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:59 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Roland Dreier <rdre...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > > > Is that regular kernel coding practice, to run away with the work > > > someone else did and to claim authorship ? As far as I know this is > > > considered as impolite. > > > > I don't see "with proper credit for Bart" as claiming authorship. And > > yes, I think proposing a better way of doing things is definitely > > regular kernel coding practice. It's more than polite -- it's going way > > beyond helpful review comments and actually helping revise the patches. > > You are welcome to have a look at the descriptions of the three > patches posted by David Dillow. I was not credited in any way in these > descriptions. Not for analyzing the problem, not for the design of a > solution and not for the work I did in implementing a solution. That > is why I wrote that David Dillow was claiming authorship of the work I > did.
And here I thought I covered it by stating in the cover letter that they were not signed off, needed credit for you, and shouldn't go upstream until you ACK'd them, presumably with that fixed. I thought people would put two and two together, but I suppose not. I'll try to be more explicit next time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
