On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:03:46AM -0700, Kevin Strasser wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:12:09AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Kevin Strasser wrote:
> > 
> > This patch set looks reasonable now, except a formal issue.
> >  
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Strasser <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > This is wrong, as it says:
> > 
> >  Kevin authored the code, sent it to Michael and Michael sent it to
> >  LKML.
> > 
> > 
> > The original code was authored by Michael. This version was authored
> > by Kevin based on Michaels code.
> > 
> > So either you keep Michael as the author, then you want 
> > 
> >  From: Michael Brunner <[email protected]>
> > 
> >  <patch description/>
> > 
> >  Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <[email protected]>
> >  Signed-off-by: Kevin Strasser <[email protected]>
> > 
> > or you decide that it's a major rewrite by you, then you want:
> > 
> >  This patch is based on the original version authored by
> >  Michael Brunner <[email protected]>.
> > 
> >  Signed-off-by: Kevin Strasser <[email protected]>
> > 
> >  Or 
> > 
> >  Originally-From: Michael Brunner <[email protected]>.
> >  Signed-off-by: Kevin Strasser <[email protected]>
> 
> Ok, I think this will make sense for all the patches except gpio,
> which is a major rewrite by Guenter.
> 
> So maybe this would be appropriate:
> 
>  From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
> 
>  <patch description>
> 
>  Originally-From: Michael Brunner <[email protected]>
>  Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
>  Signed-off-by: Kevin Strasser <[email protected]>
>  ...

Ok with me. Always happy to take the blame :)

Thanks,
Guenter

> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
> > 
> > Other than that.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> 
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