Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] LogicPD minimal board support for LV_SOM and Torpedo

[Stephan Linz]

Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2010, um 20:40:51 schrieb Ashwin Bihari:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Tim Nordell <tim.nordell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> >  On 10/11/10 12:30, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >> Uhh, so whose patches are these originally?
> >>
> >> We have them now queued with Tim Nordell as the author. Please let me
> >> know ASAP if you want me to change that.

Hi Tony,

No, I don't want to change anything. Only the LogicPD employees should be 
named inside the pathes as far as the patches are not a direct pull from my 
own devel tree on Gitorious. Ashwin has done a good explanation of the 
situation.


- Stephan


> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Tony
> >
> > The history for those patches, for me, originated with Jacob Tanenbaum's
> > patchset.  I was taking over for him as he was going back to school.  I
> > did some misc. changes for further submission, but I was not the
> > original author.  I don't know Stephan's involvement - however, in the
> > source files he's attributed credit in the header, as well as one of my
> > coworkers so presumably there was some involvement on both ends.  I
> > recognize some of the code as coming from our kernel release, so likely
> > it was a hybrid originally between Stephan, Peter, and Jacob.
> >
> > That's about the extent that I know.
> >
> > - Tim
>
> Tony,
>
> LogicPD engineers did the initial porting and then Stephan Linz
> re-started the work on the, then recent, 2.6.32 Kernel using our BSP
> as a starting point. He was kind enough to send those LogicPD and we
> began putting it together against the latest Linux Kernel for
> inclusion and that was done by Jacob over the summer and finished off
> by Tim.
>
> Stephan Linz is credited in the patch and Peter Barada (another
> LogicPD employee) is listed as the maintainer though his part (along
> with me) in getting these specific patches out have been more behind
> the scenes. So having the names listed as they are now is OK.
>
> In the upcoming months we will be pushing out additional support for
> the LogicPD's boards and it will most likely come up a variety of
> LogicPD engineers depending on our workload..
>
> Thanks
> -- Ashwin


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Viele Grüße,
Stephan Linz
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