Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] serial: 8250: Store to lsr_save_flags after lsr read

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jun 06 2022 - 13:13:21 EST


On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 6:54 PM Ilpo Järvinen
<ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:55 PM Ilpo Järvinen
> > <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> > But more importantly I do not see the reason for the Acked-by tag when
> > SoB of the same person is present.
>
> I just repeated what Uwe gave me. Maybe he didn't notice he was already
> there as SoB.
>
> This situation is anyway a bit more complex than usual. The line I took
> was part of Uwe's much larger patch initially (which was fully reverted)
> so his SoB was carried over to preserve the authorship. As I made a
> non-trivial modification to his original patch by removing almost all of
> it, I added my SoB too. Given this situation, I kind of thought he Acked
> (approved) the post-modification version of it.

I believe you haven't preserved the authorship that way (since From
line is different), but since you have done non-trivial changes and
Uwe is okay with them, the straightforward tag chain would be (with
your authorship implied):
Co-developed-by: Uwe
SoB: Uwe
SoB: yours

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko