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From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation
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On 2018-10-12 11:30 a.m., Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:33:08 +0800
> Wesley Sheng <wesleyshenggit@sina.com> wrote:
> 
>> The ntb_hw_switchtec driver has requirements on kernel configuration
>> so we add these notes to the documentation and also clean up a few 
>> other sentences in the documentation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wesley Yung <wesley.yung@microchip.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kelvin Cao <kelvin.cao@microchip.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wesley Sheng <wesleyshenggit@sina.com>
> 
> So why all of these signoffs for such a small patch?  Who is the actual
> author of the patch?

It was originally two very small patches from Mr. Yung[1] and Mr. Cao[2]
combined and then cleaned up for upstream by Mr. Sheng.

There will likely be a bit more of this as they intend on upstreaming
more of the work that has been done out-of-tree. I believe most of this
is minor bug fixes and small feature additions.

Logan

[1]
https://github.com/Microsemi/switchtec-kernel/commit/5e7e7709c8ce6f37163113a8b6282aa4a788b6a0

[2]
https://github.com/Microsemi/switchtec-kernel/commit/e25fbb7267a742d08ca0802e0a6886c183e8b7b4