Re: [PATCH] gpio: regmap: move drvdata to config data

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 12:03 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 2021-06-05 00:00, schrieb Linus Walleij:
>
> >> Btw, I'm not sure how to handle this "was part of another patch by
> >> another
> >> author" thing. Should I leave the Sob and just add mine?
> >
> > Ideally just stack Sign-offs it is called the "delivery path".
>
> Even if it is just a subset of the original patch?

Yeah it's just an indication of whose hands typed thes characters.
Something with copyright law actually, nothing to do with actual
attribution. See (11) here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html

Author: should reflect the person who wrote the majority of the
code however.

Yours,
Linus Walleij