From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
Mitsuhiro Kimura <mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com>,
masaru.nagai.vx@renesas.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150331090118.GA25765@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150331064349.GB4605@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:43:49AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> I think this is normal policy. I have seen it more than once on lkml.
> The reason for the author's SOB is to make sure that he or she is
> really authorized (like from the employer) to contribute the driver.
Another issue is maintainership. If one person submits work written
by someone else, who is responsible for bug fixing?
We already have had one driver (ptp_pch) dumped on us, and nobody
looks after it.
Thanks,
Richard
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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
Mitsuhiro Kimura <mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com>,
masaru.nagai.vx@renesas.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:01:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150331090118.GA25765@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150331064349.GB4605@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:43:49AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> I think this is normal policy. I have seen it more than once on lkml.
> The reason for the author's SOB is to make sure that he or she is
> really authorized (like from the employer) to contribute the driver.
Another issue is maintainership. If one person submits work written
by someone else, who is responsible for bug fixing?
We already have had one driver (ptp_pch) dumped on us, and nobody
looks after it.
Thanks,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-31 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 23:13 [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-27 23:13 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28 5:17 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-03-28 5:17 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-03-28 8:36 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 8:36 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 13:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28 13:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28 8:28 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 8:28 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 18:26 ` David Miller
2015-03-28 18:26 ` David Miller
2015-03-30 22:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-30 22:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31 6:43 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31 6:43 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31 9:01 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2015-03-31 9:01 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31 15:38 ` David Miller
2015-03-31 15:38 ` David Miller
2015-03-31 17:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31 17:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31 17:48 ` David Miller
2015-03-31 17:48 ` David Miller
2015-04-03 6:27 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-03 6:27 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-03 6:27 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-12 22:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-12 22:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-09 13:11 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-04-09 13:11 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-04-09 17:57 ` David Miller
2015-04-09 17:57 ` David Miller
2015-04-13 20:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 20:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 5:27 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 5:27 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 10:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 10:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 16:30 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 16:30 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 16:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 16:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 18:30 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 18:30 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-15 1:01 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15 1:01 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15 1:01 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15 5:31 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-15 5:31 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-02 13:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-02 13:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 20:34 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 20:34 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 22:13 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:13 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 22:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 22:53 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:53 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 23:08 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 23:08 ` Ben Hutchings
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