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Hi Yogesh,

On 30.05.2018 16:24, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Yogesh,
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2018 13:50:51 +0000
> Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frieder,
>>
>> Thanks for migrating the fsl-quadspi.c driver on the new SPI
>> framework. This patch is using dynamic LUT approach to create the LUT
>> at run time instead of fixed static LUT as being used in current
>> driver present at mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c. I have pushed the
>> changes for dynamic LUT on mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c and v10 has been
>> in review stage.
>>
>> Request you to please add 'signed-off' mentioned in those patches in
>> this patch, patchwork link is
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/896534/

So for reasons already given by Boris, I won't add your S-o-b tags. But 
I can add your name (and that of Suresh Gupta?) to the file header and 
as MODULE_AUTHOR in the next version.

Regards,

Frieder

> 
> First, I'd like to state that this work has not been based on your
> dynamic LUT code, and I actually asked you to adapt your code to match
> the way we were handling it in the new driver (which at that time was
> still under development). Then, even if you want to be cited as one of
> the author of the new code, SoB tag is not the right way to do it (see
> [1] for an explanation on when SoB should be added). Instead, you
> should add your name in the copyright header and maybe be add a
> MODULE_AUTHOR():
> 
> /*
>   * Copyright ...
>   * ...
>   * Authors:
>   *	...
>   *	Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>
>   */
> 
> ...
> 
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>");
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#L429
>