On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:35:24PM -0800, Tim Gardner wrote: > On 02/21/2012 10:29 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:49:51AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > >>From: Colin Ian King<[email protected]> > > > >No, that's not who wrote this original patch, it was Tyler. You can say > >that Colin did the backport, but to misrepresent this as someone else's > >work is unacceptable, I can not take this patch at all. > > > >rejected. > > > > Colin sent it this way, though I suspect he did so by accident. I > _did_ notice and decided to concede his authorship after a quick > look at the size of the patch and the amount of testing that was > done. Tyler is still first in the chain of provenance. > > It seems like a grey area to me. How much damage do you have to do > to a patch before you are the author?
Backporting does not remove original authorship, you can note who did the backport work, but please, be more careful. To not at the very least acknowledge the original author here is the most egregious thing. Would you want that to happen to a patch you wrote? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
