Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 16:34:24 EST



On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 22:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 02:52 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is a little helper I pulled from the mips tree.
> > > ...
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > And who is the original author of this little helper in the MIPS tree?
> >
> > commit 16b7b2ac0148e839da86af8747b6fa4aad43a9b7
> > Author: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Wouldn't it be appropriate to assign the authorship in the usual form
> i.e.:
>
> From: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> on top of the patch and keep the original changelog message intact
> including the Signed-off-by of the author and Ralf ?
>
> Aside of the broken S-O-B chain this is a blatant usurpation of
> somebody else's work.
>

I took a function and modified it for my usage, which happens all the
time.

I'd be fine if Atsushi wants to sign off on the patch.

Daniel

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