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=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 6EC0CC433E0 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFF72312B for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727007AbhASG6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:58:51 -0500 Received: from mx3.molgen.mpg.de ([141.14.17.11]:38971 "EHLO mx1.molgen.mpg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729386AbhASG4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:56:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.6] (ip5f5aeabb.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.90.234.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pmenzel) by mx.molgen.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 64D2520645D54; Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:55:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence To: Greg KH , Jakub Kicinski Cc: Jesse Brandeburg , Tony Nguyen , Jeffrey Townsend , "David S . Miller" , intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John W Linville References: <20201102231307.13021-1-pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> <20201102231307.13021-3-pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> <20201102161943.343586b1@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <36ce1f2e-843c-4995-8bb2-2c2676f01b9d@molgen.mpg.de> <20201103103940.2ed27fa2@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> From: Paul Menzel Message-ID: <19eab284-b7b0-7053-1aa7-5fedcee04263@molgen.mpg.de> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:55:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 05.01.21 um 18:25 schrieb Greg KH: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: >>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: >>>> According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it’s my >>>> understanding, that it is *not* required. The items (a), (b), and (c) >>>> are connected by an *or*. >>>> >>>>> (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best >>>>> of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source >>>>> license and I have the right under that license to submit that >>>>> work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part >>>>> by me, under the same open source license (unless I am >>>>> permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated >>>>> in the file; or >>> >>> Ack, but then you need to put yourself as the author, because it's >>> you certifying that the code falls under (b). >>> >>> At least that's my understanding. >> >> Greg, can you please clarify, if it’s fine, if I upstream a patch authored >> by somebody else and distributed under the GPLv2? I put them as the author >> and signed it off. > > You can't add someone else's signed-off-by, but you can add your own and > keep them as the author, has happened lots of time in the past. > > Or, you can make the From: line be from you if the original author > doesn't want their name/email in the changelog, we've done that as well, > both are fine. Greg, thank you for the clarification. Jakub, with that out of the way, can you please take patch 2/2? Kind regards, Paul