[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Add single register pin controller driver

James james at balean.com.au
Sat Mar 11 11:52:29 UTC 2017


Hi Felix,

Not 'hijacking' a patch, just following Linux Developer's Certificate of
Origin 1.1 guidelines.

As you know, I contacted you directly with this patch suggestion prior to
posting to the mailing list (keeping strictly to rule c). I had hoped you
would make a new version:

> On 09.03.2017 08:53, James Balean wrote:
>> Did you want to test/submit this?

Perhaps I misinterpreted your response, which stated:

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 at 04:13, Felix Brack <fb at ltec.ch> wrote:
> This and probably more has to be accessible by _all_ mailing list
subscribers. Please post there.

This was confusing, as I could see no way to convert this work to a patch
of your unapproved v2 patch (being new to this process).

On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 at 00:07, Felix Brack <fb at ltec.ch> wrote:
> Remove this "Signed-off-by" tag as I neither made nor tested these
modifications.

My understanding from the 'submitting patches' guide is that the square
bracket nomenclature I used indicates minor changes to an existing patch,
thereby providing you with credit whilst also denoting that you do not
endorse the changes.

> What if I fix a
bug in my v2 patch? Should I then increase from v2 to v4?

Perhaps someone can clarify, but it seems logical that the version number
is in order of contribution to the project, rather than being tied to any
specific user. Especially given the software license it is under.


Kind regards,
James Balean


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