From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2172CC2D0C0 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 07:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BEC20733 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 07:36:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1577000194; bh=0WC+1oTzlfAyupoSI+DSrw5JYMGvrvIFyNFAfcLWXOU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=TJV6gXATFUW9vBd3PzxfZvi1togooBdlmXKw6vgmiWZ7I7qJggAMj891svpbYBIoC YURPHE3zGRlZbB7mVsR0wpHr1X1DVjjsXeGzhc73QZVnaHu1Un3GsLbMZc+UZPYVGh 7tdKZBwbTOL80eEJfNB920ORuyBNss7dfcxecAGk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725840AbfLVHgd (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Dec 2019 02:36:33 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52934 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725829AbfLVHgd (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Dec 2019 02:36:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [193.47.165.251]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 056A720665; Sun, 22 Dec 2019 07:36:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1577000192; bh=0WC+1oTzlfAyupoSI+DSrw5JYMGvrvIFyNFAfcLWXOU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=xipZG6De7qFFjB3eR17uSzDTlzuTptcago3K2kin/k1EeGL5KuIQzCLHYYkzkb3C6 1i0cnEXRZZbv9csoCy1YKeIOyVH/SEw7lkb6MqcwZEa2WkhaSBrog3tWEVSdhznMXr yx90r/pV1eUSHLYSDRjnfWSQJb3FxC0Dm7+xDpM0= Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 09:36:29 +0200 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Danil Kipnis Cc: Jack Wang , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Sagi Grimberg , Bart Van Assche , Doug Ledford , Jack Wang , rpenyaev@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/25] rtrs: public interface header to establish RDMA connections Message-ID: <20191222073629.GE13335@unreal> References: <20191220155109.8959-1-jinpuwang@gmail.com> <20191220155109.8959-3-jinpuwang@gmail.com> <20191221101530.GC13335@unreal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 03:27:55PM +0100, Danil Kipnis wrote: > Hi Leon, > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 11:15 AM Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > Perhaps it is normal practice to write half a company as authors, > > and I'm wrong in the following, but code authorship is determined by > > multiple tags in the commit messages. > > Different developers contributed to the driver over the last several > years. Currently they are not working any more on this code. What tags > in the commit message do you think would be appropriate to give those > people credit for their work? Signed-of-by/Co-developed-../e.t.c But honestly without looking in your company contract, I'm pretty sure that those people are not eligible for special authorship rights and credits beyond already payed by the employer. Thanks > > Best, > Danil