Re: [PATCH v0 3/4] drivers: edac: Add cache erp driver for Last Level Cache Controller (LLCC)

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 00:23:00 EST


On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:38:01PM -0700, vnkgutta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do you mean the Signed-off-by lines above? That's because
> Channagoud is the one who is the original author of this driver,
> and I'm the one who did the incremental changes (changes in llcc)
> and uploading it upstream.
> That's why the Signed-off is like that.
> Which way do you think it should be?

Then you need to figure out between you two who the author should be
because we have single authorship. When you do, commit it in git with

git commit --amend --author=...

so that that is reflected properly.

For expressing stuff like co-authorship we have

Co-Developed-by:

All explained in submitting-patches.rst.

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Boris.

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