Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: sun8i: h3: orangepi-plus: Fix Ethernet PHY mode

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Jernej Škrabec wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Let me first explain that it was oversight on my side not noticing initials in 
> your SoB tag. But since the issue was raised by Maxime, I didn't follow up.
> 
> Dne sobota, 13. februar 2021 ob 07:51:32 CET je B.R. Oake napisal(a):
> > On Wed Feb 10 at 16:01:18 CET 2021, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Unfortunately we can't take this patch as is, this needs to be your real
> > > name, see:
> > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#de
> > > veloper-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1
> > Dear Maxime,
> > 
> > Thank you very much for considering my contribution and for all your
> > work on supporting sunxi-based hardware; I appreciate it.
> > 
> > Thank you for referring me to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, but
> > I had already read it before submitting (I had to do so in order to know
> > what I was saying by "Signed-off-by:") and I do certify what it says.
> > 
> > Looking through recent entries in the commit log of the mainline kernel,
> > I see several patches from authors such as:
> > 
> >   H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
> >   B K Karthik <karthik.bk2000@xxxxxxxx>
> >   JC Kuo <jckuo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   EJ Hsu <ejh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   LH Lin <lh.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   Karthik B S <karthik.b.s@xxxxxxxxx>
> >   Shreyas NC <shreyas.nc@xxxxxxxxx>
> >   Vandana BN <bnvandana@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > so I believe names of this form are in fact acceptable, even if the
> > style might seem a little old-fashioned to some.
> 
> Speaking generally, not only for this case, prior art arguments rarely hold, 
> because:
> - it might be oversight,
> - it might be a bad practice, which should not be followed in new 
> contributions,
> - different maintainers have different point of view on same thing,
> - maintainer wants to adapt new practice or steer subsystem in new direction
> 
> > 
> > I would like to add that I have met many people with names such as C.J.,
> > A A, TC, MG, etc. That is what everybody calls them and it would be
> > natural for them to sign themselves that way. Some of them might want to
> > contribute to Linux some day, and I think it would be a great shame and
> > a loss to all of us if they were discouraged from doing so by reading
> > our conversation in the archives and concluding that any contribution
> > from them, however small, would be summarily refused simply because of
> > their name. Please could you ensure that does not happen?
> 
> The link you posted says following:
> "using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)"
> 
> I believe that real name means no initials, no matter what people are 
> accustomed to. From my point of view, CJ is pseudonym derived from real name.
> 
> This is not the first time that fix of SoB tag was requested, you can find such 
> requests in ML archives.

Any chance this could be resolved? In downstream (here Debian) we
would be interested to have the patch applied due to
https://bugs.debian.org/988574 reported by Vagrant Cascadian.

Regards,
Salvatore