From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Jeffrey Townsend <jeffrey.townsend@bigswitch.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:55:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19eab284-b7b0-7053-1aa7-5fedcee04263@molgen.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X/ShBVXp32Y+Jeds@kroah.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 23:13 [PATCH 0/2] Upstream ONL patch for PHY BCM5461S Paul Menzel
2020-11-02 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] ethernet: igb: Support " Paul Menzel
2020-11-02 23:24 ` Paul Menzel
2020-11-03 1:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-11-02 23:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence Paul Menzel
2020-11-03 0:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-03 7:35 ` Paul Menzel
2020-11-03 18:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-05 17:16 ` Paul Menzel
2021-01-05 17:25 ` Greg KH
2021-01-19 6:55 ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2021-01-19 17:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
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