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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Sat, 5 Jun 2021 00:13:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: regmap: move drvdata to config data
To:     Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc:     "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
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On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 12:03 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> 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