Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/arm: Sync sysregs and cpuinfo with Linux 5.18-rc3

[Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com>]

Hi,

> On 11 May 2022, at 16:47, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bertrand,
> 
> On 11/05/2022 16:40, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
>>> On 11 May 2022, at 16:20, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> wrote:
>>> Technically, speaking you only copied the code from Linux and therefore you are not the author of some of the changes.
>>> 
>>> For such case, our general process is:
>> Could you tell me where this process is described ?
> 
> The closest description I could find is:
> 
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc;h=7ff7826c992b68804b41cc4a8605329f7a10e44c;hb=HEAD#l75

This state to give the origin which I can easily do for my patch.
But it does not state that we need to list all the authors from all changes in the origin.

Are you only requesting to modify my patch to add one origin line with the SHA or to actually list all authors of all patches for all changes between the previous state in Xen and the state after my patch ?

> 
>>> 1) Backport the commit as-is (i.e the Author is the original Author)
>>> 2) Add the tag Origin (recently introduced)
>>> 3) Add your signed-off-by
>> So following this theory, if we import a file from Linux we should list all the people who contributed to it since it was created ?
> 
> Technically yes.

But this does not apply here as I am not back porting a patch but syncing a file.
The origin as said upper should be enough to get this information.

Cheers
Bertrand

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall