[PATCH v2 1/6] mtd: ubi: Do not zero out EC and VID on ECC-ed NOR flashes

Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus at linaro.org
Mon Apr 29 16:44:04 CEST 2024



On 4/29/24 15:17, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25 2024, tkuw584924 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Takahiro Kuwano <Takahiro.Kuwano at infineon.com>
> 
> I wonder how authorship should work for such patches. Patches 1, 2, and
> 6 in this series are very close to what my patches did for Linux. So I
> wonder who should get authorship in this case: the person porting the
> patch or the person who wrote the original one. Same for patch 5 but
> that is still a little more changed from its Linux counterpart.
> 

I saw it's the one that ports the patch to u-boot even when it's a
1-to-1 match. I guess it's because u-boot has its own dedicated repo.

cut

>>
>> This patch replicates the following upstream linux commit:
>> f669e74be820 ("ubi: Do not zero out EC and VID on ECC-ed NOR flashes")

This paragraph shall give credit to the linux author and at the same
time help others review the changes.


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