Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: pca9450: Fix BUCK2 enable_mask

[Frieder Schrempf]

On 13.03.23 15:21, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Hi Frieder,
> 
> thanks for your comments.
> 
> Am Montag, 13. März 2023, 14:46:08 CET schrieb Frieder Schrempf:
>> On 10.03.23 10:28, Alexander Stein wrote:
>>> This fixes a copy & paste error.
>>
>> I would mention here, that this doesn't contain any functional changes
>> as BUCK1_ENMODE_MASK is equal to BUCK2_ENMODE_MASK.
> 
> That's a good idea.
> 
>>> Fixes: 0935ff5f1f0a ("regulator: pca9450: add pca9450 pmic driver")
>>> Originally-from: Robin Gong <yibin.gong@xxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> This diff is extracted from a downstream commit authored by Robin Gong.
>>> I'm not sure if adding Originally-from: is enough here or I do have to
>>> change From: as well.
>>
>> I never heard of "Originally-from:". Does this tag exist? Is it
>> documented somewhere?
> 
> Well, it's not documented, but it pops up occasionally in some commits, e.g.
> 3fb906e7fabbb ("cgroup/cpuset: Don't filter offline CPUs in 
> cpuset_cpus_allowed() for top cpuset tasks")
> I might be something only some maintainers accept though.
> 
>> I think that your tooling (git format-patch) should add a From: tag
>> automatically if you correctly pick up a patch from someone else.
> 
> Well, it's not exactly cherry-picked, but extracted from an existing commit 
> [1], so that's maybe why my name has been put into From: while extracting.
> As the diff in this patch is not exactly the same as from the origin, I did 
> not want to put Robin Gong into Signed-off-by. And I think having an author in 
> From: but not in Signed-off-by: tag should not happen.
> Searching how I can still give credit I found Originally-from. If there is a 
> better way to handle this, I'm ready to adapt to that.

Ok, good question. I currently have a similar case somewhere else and
I'm also not really sure how to handle it properly. I don't think we are
ever allowed to add a Signed-off-by tag for someone else.
Maybe "Originally-from" is correct for this case but I never really like
to use tags that aren't generally accepted or documented somewhere.