On 06/06/2018 09:03 AM, Scott Branden wrote:Sure, I can submit the original patch to keep things simple and avoid finding a lawyer right now.
Hi Clement,If you want the original author's Signed-off-by to be preserved, why
On 18-06-06 02:34 AM, ClÃment PÃron wrote:
From: ClÃment Peron <clement.peron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Thanks for upstreaming some missing Cygnus components.
There is a HWRNG in Broadcom Cygnus SoC, so enable it.
Signed-off-by: ClÃment Peron <clement.peron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
But, the problem is the tarball release from Broadcom you are extracting
these changes from does not contain git history; so, you are missing the
original authors and signed-off's.
I checked our internal git repository and for this commit the author is:
Mohamed Ismail Abdul Packir Mohamed <mohamed-ismail.abdul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Please adjust author and signed-off appropriately. If there are other
changes you are extracting from the source tarballs you have please
contact me so we can construct patch appropriately.
don't you extract it from your internal git tree and submit the patch on
Mohamed's behalf?
But, It would be great to get some guidance and clarification on this for sure.
AFAICT what Clement is doing here is permissible given the Linux
developer certificate of origin though I am not a lawyer of course.