* Forward-porting
@ 2014-12-28 14:53 Matwey V. Kornilov
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From: Matwey V. Kornilov @ 2014-12-28 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi.
I hope this is right place to ask question on SubmittingPatches. I would
like to ask how correctly give the credits in the patch when I do
forward-porting.
There is some downstream kernel git where support of the some ARM board
is implemented for 3.12. What I did was to take dts, adopted it for
linux master and tested on upstream 3.18.1 (will also test with
3.19-rc), and found the board working.
I don't know if initial authors ever send this to upstream, but GPL
terms allows us to take this code right now.
In the initial commit tree, the code I tested is belong to several
different people, but I have to rebase the initial tree to take only
tiny needed part, so I can not just resend initial commits.
How should I properly fill "From:" field in the patch to specify initial
authors correctly?
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