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=-5.5 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 85C11C433E0 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C4422D01 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730375AbhAERRn (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:17:43 -0500 Received: from mx3.molgen.mpg.de ([141.14.17.11]:45969 "EHLO mx1.molgen.mpg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729893AbhAERRn (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:17:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.6] (ip5f5aea6a.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.90.234.106]) (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 D261E20647DA3; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:16:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence To: Jakub Kicinski , Greg KH 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: Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:16:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201103103940.2ed27fa2@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> 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 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. (In this case the change, adding an if condition, is also trivial.) Kind regards, Paul