Re: [PATCH 23/24] ab8500-bm: Fix minor niggles experienced duringtesting

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Jan 23 2013 - 03:16:40 EST


On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:27:17AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:03:59PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > When compile testing the new AB8500 Battery Management changes
> > > > due for inclusion into upstream, there were a few minor niggles
> > > > which required repairing, or adapting for use against the
> > > > Mainline kernel. This patch is a collection of them all.
> > >
> > > No. This is the third time I'm saying it: the last time I checked, this is
> > > not how we do development in the mainline.
> >
> > Okay, all of these changes have now been fixed-up into the patches
> > which caused the issues. I have also added Stable to the patch you
> > requested it on.
> >
> > How would you like to proceed? Do you want a pull-request, or for me
> > to send the patches to the list again?
>
> Either way will work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anton
>
> p.s. I took another look at the patches, and noticed one issue that is
> constantly there: you place your signed-off-by line on top of everyones',
> but that's wrong. Sign offs are going downwards, not upwards. This is
> quite important since the lines encode how the code "travels" between
> companies and submitters. Currently, one might assume that the origin of
> the code is always Linaro, which is not quite true. (And 'From:' doesn't
> always mean the author, fwiw.)

Thanks for the info. I'll move them all and re-submit.

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